Perspective and Prejudice: Antecedents and Mediating MechanismsColgate University
University of Nijmegen
Georgia State University
University of Delaware
University of North Carolina
University of Western Ontario, Wilmington
University of Delaware
Colgate University 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.
Key Words: empathy • perspective taking • prejudice reduction • racism • social identity • social categorization
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 12,
1537-1549 (2004) This article has been cited by other articles:
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