Reducing Implicit Prejudice by Blurring Intergroup Boundaries |
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Authors: | Natalie R. Hall Mein-woei Suen |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of Reading , Natalie.Hall@reading.ac.uk;3. Chung-Shang Medical University , |
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Abstract: | In two experiments we examined whether and when blurring intergroup boundaries reduces implicit prejudice. In Experiment 1 we observed that when participants first completed a task in which they generated characteristics that overlapped between an ingroup and an outgroup they showed less implicit bias as measured by an Implicit Association Test. In Experiment 2 we found that the effectiveness of blurring intergroup boundaries for reducing implicit bias was moderated by pretask levels of ingroup identification. We discuss these findings in the context of extending differentiation-based interventions for reducing explicit bias to the domain of implicit attitudes. |
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