Method and procedure described with tables and graphs. 12 experimental groups using the California Ethnocentrism Scale. 'Extent of participation in discussion depends upon the amount of learning that has taken place.' 18 references. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

This study examines the relation between attitude position and the acceptance of information. 169 college students served as Ss. The experimental group listened to arguments about racial segregation in a manner intended to produce involvement in the situation while the control group spent time with tasks unrelated to segregation. Attitudes…

It has been suggested (Byrne, 1961a) that the degree of attraction between two individuals is determined by four classes of variables: the structural properties of the environment which act to vary propinquity, the strength of the characteristic affiliation motive of each individual, generalization from previous learning with respect to the…

The attitude change caused by reading selections from children’s literature was determined by means of an attitude scale constructed for this purpose. In this study 437 fifth-grade children participated. Each of the eighteen classrooms was randomly designated a control group, a reading group or a reading plus discussion group so that there were…

56 2-person teams, 28 composed of 2 caucasians and 28 composed of 2 Japanese, played a modified prisoner's dilemma game, 1/2 playing teams of the other race. Ss played the game once between teams and again within teams. in- vs. outgroup cooperation and attitudes were not significamtly different in the racially heterogeneous condition. the…

Investigated the effect of curriculum materials which portray Negroes in a way which is contradictory to prevailing prejudices and stereotypes upon the attitudes toward Negroes of white 2nd-grade school children in a Midwestern city. A pretest-posttest design controlling for the teacher, the classroom, the school, and the reading ability of Ss…

The literature indicates that equal status face to face contact between the races has some effect upon attitudes of racial bias. This study was an experiment to assess the relationship of interracial contact between quasi equal status blacks and whites and racial attitudes as measured by the Multifactor Racial Attitude Inventory. The subjects…

We predicted that discussion would enhance dominant group values, leading to increased polarization between homogeneously composed groups of high-, medium-, and low-prejudice high school subjects. In an experimental condition, group members made individual attitude judgments, discussed them, and remade judgments. Control groups discussed…

This research study was designed to determine the effect of exposure to cultural-social-economic diversity on selected attitudes of elementary school teachers by investigating the effects on teacher tolerance and optimism of exposure to 1) the usual classroom situation and 2) an inservice training program. The research was conducted as a field…