Perspective and Prejudice: Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms
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The present work investigated mechanisms by which Whites’ prejudice toward Blacks can be reduced (Study 1) and explored how creating a common ingroup identity can reduce prejudice by promoting these processes (Study 2). In Study 1, White participants who viewed a videotape depicting examples of racial discrimination and who imagined the victim’s feelings showed greater decreases in prejudice toward Blacks than did those in the objective and no instruction conditions. Among the potential mediating affective and cognitive variables examined, reductions in prejudice were mediated primarily by feelings associated with perceived injustice. In Study 2, an intervention designed to increase perceptions of a common group identity before viewing the videotape, reading that a terrorist threat was directed at all Americans versus directed just at White Americans, also reduced prejudice towardBlacks through increases in feelings of injustice.
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Controlled laboratory studies instructing subjects to adopt a perspective associated with another person and his or her situation have been shown to reduce bias toward a range of stigmatized groups, including Blacks, and to inhibit the activation of unconscious stereotypes and prejudices.
“Controlled laboratory studies instructing subjects to adopt a perspective associated with another person and his or her situation have been shown to reduce bias toward a range of stigmatized groups,81 including Blacks,82,83 and to inhibit the activation of unconscious stereotypes and prejudices.84”
From Reducing Racial Bias Among Health Care Providers: Lessons from Social-Cognitive Psychology (2007) · cites this paper as [82]
Perceptions of common ingroup membership increase psychological bond and feelings of oneness that facilitate perspective taking and the arousal of empathy in response to their needs or problems.
“Perceptions of common ingroup membership also increase psychological bond and feelings of “oneness” that facilitate perspective taking82 and the arousal of empathy in response to their needs or problems.105–107”
From Reducing Racial Bias Among Health Care Providers: Lessons from Social-Cognitive Psychology (2007) · cites this paper as [82]
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- Authors
- Dovidio, J. F., ten Vergert, M., Stewart, T. L., Gaertner, S. L., Johnson, J. D., Esses, V. M., Riek, B. M., & Pearson, A. R.
- Affiliations
- Colgate University (US)
- University of Nijmegen
- Georgia State University (US)
- University of Delaware (US)
- University of North Carolina
- Western University (CA)
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-12
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1537-1549
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2098526396
- Cited by
- 391
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 13.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh048721-08)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH 48721)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Keywords
- racial prejudice, prejudice reduction, black-white relations, common ingroup identity, perceived injustice, racial discrimination, perspective taking, terrorist threats, in-group favoritism
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Cognition, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Prejudice, Social Justice, Video Recording, Black People, White People
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