The culture assimilator is a procedure designed to train persons from one culture to improve their interpersonal behavior with persons from another culture. The approach is based on the idea that interpersonal effectiveness is optimized when members of 2 cultures make similar attributions concerning the causes of a person's behavior. A…

According to social identity theory, when group status is threatened, highly committed group members respond with greater in-group favoritism. However, some of the groups build their identities on negative self-stereotypes. For such groups, status-threatening information should lead their members to confirmation of the group’s negative self…

The present research examined the nature of prejudice toward people with developmental disabilities, its underlying root in dehumanization and implication for opposition to social policies, and the efficacy of two strategies for reducing this bias. In Study 1 and Study 2, dehumanization significantly predicted both greater prejudice and greater…

Across numerous domains, research has consistently linked decreased capacity for executive control to negative outcomes. Under some conditions, however, this deficit may translate into gains: When individuals' regulatory strategies are maladaptive, depletion of the resource fueling such strategies may facilitate positive outcomes, both intra-…

Existing evidence shows that a brief, casual interpersonal touch results in positive behavior toward the toucher. Theoretically this effect arises because touch is an embodied cue to friendship or closeness, as demonstrated by its role in attachment and relationship development. According to research on intergroup contact, feelings of…

Information about the degree of one's genetic overlap with ethnic outgroups has been emphasized in genocides, is frequently learned about through media reporting, and is increasingly being accessed via personal genetic testing services. However, the consequence of learning about whether your own ethnic group is either genetically related to or…

Attempted to determine the effects of induced feelings of self-dissatisfaction on long-range changes in values, attitudes, and behavior. By feedback of information about one's own and others' values, attitudes, and behavior, 197 experimental ss were made aware that they held incompatible values concerning equality and freedom, or held values…

This study tracked the long-term effect of perceptual individuation training on reducing 5-year-old Chinese children's (N = 95, Mage = 5.64 years) implicit pro-Asian/anti-Black racial bias. Initial training to individuate other-race Black faces, followed by supplementary training occurring 1&nbsp…

Purpose: There is a critical need to clarify the long-term effects of anti-stigma interventions. The study aimed to assess the long-term effects of repeated filmed social contact or internet-based self-study on mental health-related stigma through a randomised controlled trial with 2-year follow-up.

Methods: We randomly allocated 259…

We developed a multi-faceted prejudice habit-breaking intervention to produce long-term reductions in implicit race bias. The intervention is based on the premise that implicit bias is like a habit that can be broken through a combination of awareness of implicit bias, concern about the effects of that bias, and the application of strategies to…