Perspective and Prejudice: Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms

Perspective and Prejudice: Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms

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 raci...

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Published in:Personality & social psychology bulletin Vol. 30; no. 12; pp. 1537 - 1549
Main Authors: Dovidio, John F., ten Vergert, Marleen, Stewart, Tracie L., Gaertner, Samuel L., Johnson, James D., Esses, Victoria M., Riek, Blake M., Pearson, Adam R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publications 01-12-2004
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
African Americans
African Continental Ancestry Group
Black American people
Black White Relations
Cognition
Emotions
Empathy
European Continental Ancestry Group
Female
Group Identity
Humans
Male
Perceptions
Prejudice
Prevention
Preventive programmes
Racial prejudice
Racism
Social identity
Social Inequality
Social Justice
USA
White people
empathy
social categorization
racism
social identity
perspective taking
prejudice reduction
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Summary: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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ISSN:0146-1672
1552-7433
DOI:10.1177/0146167204271177