Messages about the uniqueness and similarities of people: Impact on U.S. Black and Latino youth |
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| Authors: | Sheri R. Levy Tara L. West Rebecca S. Bigler Dina M. Karafantis Luisa Ramirez Elizabeth Velilla |
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| Affiliation: | aDepartment of Psychology, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500, United States;bDepartment of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, United States;cDepartment of Psychology, Borough of Manhattan Community College, United States;dDepartment of Psychology, Columbia University, United States |
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| Abstract: | This experiment examined the impact of messages about uniqueness and similarity between groups of people on Black and Latino children's social attitudes. Children (ages 11–14) read two brief science books embedded with a similarities message (“all people are basically the same”), unique message (“each person is unique”), combined similar-unique message (“all people are the same in a way, but each person is also unique”), or no additional message (control). Relative to the other conditions, the combined condition increased general social tolerance and decreased desired social distance from White children. No message appeared to negatively impact participants' attitudes toward their own group. Implications of these results for basic and applied anti-bias work on promoting similarities, differences, or both are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Dual identity Individual differences Intervention Prejudice Racial attitudes Similarities Social tolerance Black and Latino attitudes |
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