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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Prejudice Reduction"”.
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Prejudice Reduction Through Diversity Coursework for Teacher Education
… were addressed: (a) Are there differences in prejudice level between preservice teachers who have taken a diversity course and those who have not taken a diversity course? (b) Are there differences in prejudice level in preservice teachers before and after taking a diversity course? and (c) Do …
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'Exploring the potential of a prejudice reduction programme at a girls' junior school'
This study explores the potential of a prejudice reduction programme at a girls' junior school. Within South Africa, even with the changing policy and reforms that were based on a new constitutional dispensation, adults and children were, and still are, being faced on a daily basis with issues of …
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Measuring the efficacy and quality of a professional development training on prejudice reduction and reflective practice: transforming the delivery of change through collective insight and informed action
… factors or areas of critical concern, impacting prejudice and controversial issues settings. These variables included levels of leadership, and significance of the following: diversity of identity and experiences, stereotyping, internalized oppression, building pride and capacity, becoming …
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Multicultural Teaching Competence as Perceived by Business Education Student Teachers
… Knowledge Construction Process (6 skills), Prejudice Reduction (11 skills), Equity Pedagogy (5 skills), and Empowering School Culture (7 skills). The results of the study indicated that business education student teachers perceived themselves as having moderate or extreme multicultural …
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Perceptions of false confessions: Reducing prejudice toward exonerees through the use of educational materials
Educational campaigns are commonly used for prejudice reduction (Levy Paluck & Green, 2009). We were interested if educational campaigns, such as those used by innocence organizations, were successful in reducing prejudice toward exonerees. In particular, we examined whether prejudice toward an …
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The Moderating Effects of Need for Closure on the Common Ingroup Identity Model
… research on need for closure's relationship with prejudice reduction and suggest that its impact may be limited to techniques focused on intergroup contact. </p>
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Confrontation of Prejudice in the Workplace: The Role of Observer Prejudice Level, Discrimination Type, and Perpetrator Status
The Confronting Prejudiced Responses (CPR) Model (Ashburn-Nardo, Morris, & Goodwin, 2008) describes factors that predict whether people confront prejudice that they witness. The present research examined some of these factors, including: observer prejudice level (low to high), discrimination type …
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Intergroup Contact and Housing Selection of United States Study Abroad Students
… its introduction by Allport (1954; Nature of Prejudice), the contact hypothesis has expanded beyond understanding the relationship between intergroup contact and prejudice reduction (Zuma, 2014). The contact hypothesis has also been used to understand the relationship between intergroup …
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Exclusion from gender counter-stereotypic activities: Proximal and distal effects
… the experience to the external cause of others' prejudice. However work by Branscombe and colleagues suggests that exclusion from counter-stereotypic activities may be particularly threatening, as it serves as a reminder that one's group is devalued in society. Evidence from Studies 2 and 4 …
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Shaping Responses to Terrorism, Muslims, and Syrian Refugees: The Role of Right-Wing Adherence and News Media Exposure
… news outlets may be important avenues for prejudice reduction.
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Community College Faculty Members' Perceived Multicultural Teaching Competence and Attitudes Regarding Cultural Diversity
… Integration, (b) Knowledge Construction, (c) Prejudice Reduction, (d) Equity Pedagogy, and (e) Empowering School Culture (Banks, 1993). The PADAA assessed cultural diversity attitudes on four subscales: (a) Appreciate Cultural Pluralism, (b) Value Cultural Pluralism, (c) Implement Cultural …
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Impact of Class-based Prejudice toward Defendants and Victims on Mock Jurors' Decision-Making
… framework of justification-suppression of prejudice and intergroup threat. Across two trial simulation studies, the social class of the defendant (Study 1) or victim (Study 2), the availability of justification, and the presence of threat was experimentally manipulated. Participants' social …
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Subliminal Exposure to Empathy Primes: A New Method to Reduce Intergroup Bias?
… as the mechanism by which various successful prejudice-reduction procedures impact attitudes and behaviour (e.g., Costello & Hodson, 2010). However, standard explicit techniques used in empathy-prejudice research have a number of potential limitations (e.g., resistance; McGregor, 1993). The …
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Examining Prejudice Types and Their Influence on Attitudes Toward Groups
… et al. (2008) in their two-dimensional model of prejudice, subtyped prejudice into four distinct groupings: Truly-low prejudiced (TLP; those who score low on implicit and explicit measures of prejudice); Aversive Racists (AR; score low on explicit but high on implicit measures); Principled …
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The development of essentialist reasoning about religion categories in Northern Ireland
… thinking about social categories, as well as prejudice and even discrimination. <br/><br/>Prior research has found that social/cultural context constrains the development of social essentialist reasoning; the most highly emphasised and socially meaningful dimensions stressed within a …
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Reducing Automatic Stereotype Activation: European- And African American Photos In Situational Attribution Training
… American photos, I expected stronger stereotype reduction effects than has been previously shown. Participants who completed both Traditional (all African American photos), and Diverse (African- and European American photos), demonstrated reduced automatic racial stereotyping on a person …