This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in ISI Web of Science Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via ISI Web of Science (9) Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Dovidio, J. F. Articles by Pearson, A. R. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Dovidio, J. F. Articles by Pearson, A. R. Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

Perspective and Prejudice: Antecedents and Mediating Mechanisms

Colgate University

Marleen ten Vergert

University of Nijmegen

Tracie L. Stewart

Georgia State University

Samuel L. Gaertner

University of Delaware

James D. Johnson

University of North Carolina

Victoria M. Esses

University of Western Ontario, Wilmington

Blake M. Riek

University of Delaware

Adam R. Pearson

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

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				R. K. Mallett, J. R. Huntsinger, S. Sinclair, and J. K. Swim Seeing Through Their Eyes: When Majority Group Members Take Collective Action on Behalf of an Outgroup Group Processes Intergroup Relations, October 1, 2008; 11(4): 451 - 470. [Abstract] [PDF]

				W. G. Stephan Psychological and Communication Processes Associated With Intergroup Conflict Resolution Small Group Research, February 1, 2008; 39(1): 28 - 41. [Abstract] [PDF]

				C. H. Stone and R. J. Crisp Superordinate and Subgroup Identification as Predictors of Intergroup Evaluation in Common Ingroup Contexts Group Processes Intergroup Relations, October 1, 2007; 10(4): 493 - 513. [Abstract] [PDF]