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GROUP PROCESSES & INTERGROUP RELATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 565-577Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209337463
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discrimination; empathy; intergroup relations; perspective taking; prejudice
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Previous research has found that perspective taking improves attitudes towards outgroups. We find that taking the perspective of an outgroup member not only improves attitudes towards outgroups, but also reduces prejudice and discriminatory behavior against other specific individual members of that outgroup. Experiment 1 demonstrates that perspective-taking improves liking towards another member of the outgroup, while experiment 2 finds that the improved liking does not generalize to all outgroups, only the group to which the target of empathy belongs. Finally, experiment 3 shows that perspective taking also increases helping behavior towards another member of the outgroup. Moreover, we find evidence that perspective taking improves intergroup attitudes through the induction of empathy.
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