Seeing the World Through the Other s Eye: An Online Intervention Reducing Ethnic Prejudice

Publication Year
2018

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

We report the results of an intervention that targeted anti-Roma sentiment in Hungary using an online perspective-taking game. We evaluated the impact of this intervention using a randomized experiment in which a sample of young adults played this perspective-taking game, or an unrelated online game. Participation in the perspective-taking game markedly reduced prejudice, with an effect-size equivalent to half the difference between voters of the far-right and the center-right party. The effects persisted for at least a month, and, as a byproduct, the intervention also reduced antipathy toward refugees, another stigmatized group in Hungary, and decreased vote intentions for Hungary's overtly racist, far-right party by 10%. Our study offers a proof-of-concept for a general class of interventions that could be adapted to different settings and implemented at low costs.

Journal
American Political Science Review
Volume
112
Pages
186–193
Type of Article
Journal Article
Full text

Open access via the link provided.

Type of Prejudice/Bias
Country
Setting