Improving Intergroup Relations: The Effects of Empathy on Racial Attitudes1

By Krystina A. Finlay, Walter G. Stephan. 2000

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Intergroup Contact: The Past, Present, and the Future (2003, neutral): “Finlay and Stephan (2000) reported similar improvements in Whites’ attitudes toward Blacks after participants read a set of short essays ostensibly written by Black college students describing their personal experiences with discrimination (e.g. being falsely accused of wrong-doing, being denied…”
Perspective taking combats the denial of intergroup discrimination (2012, background): “Dovidio et al. (2004), for instance, found that perspective taking increased feelings ofmoral outrage afterwatching a video depicting racial discrimination (see also Finlay and Stephan, 2000), suggesting an inverse relationship between perspective taking and discrimination denial.”
Personalization and the Promise of Contact Theory (2002, background): “Personalized interaction may also promote empathy, which may generalize to the group as a whole (Batson et al., 1997; Finlay & Stephan, 2000; Galinsky & Moskowitz, 2000).”
The Role of Emotions in Determining Willingness to Engage in Intergroup Contact (2002, background): “Finlay and Stephan (2000) reported similar improvements in attitudes toward Blacks when participants were instructed to focus on Black targets’ feelings, whereas participants were reading vignettes depicting episodes of discrimination against the Black targets.”
The Effect of Empathy in Proenvironmental Attitudes and Behaviors (2007, background): “Different studies have proved the effectiveness of inducing empathy toward people with AIDS, toward the homeless and toward racial and ethnic minorities (Batson et al., 1997; Finlay & Stephan, 2000; Stephan & Pinlay, 1999).”
"Talk does not cook rice": Beyond anti-racism rhetoric to strategies for social action (2005, background): “Research indicates a strong inverse relationship between levels of prejudice and empathy (e.g., Batterham, 2001) and suggests that invoking empathy can reduce racism levels (e.g., Finlay & Stephan, 2000).”
Whites for racial justice: How contact with Black Americans predicts support for collective action among White Americans (2018, background): “…(see Davis, 2004; Stephan & Finlay, 1999); reactive empathy refers to when people feel empathic concern and compassion upon learning about the experiences of others (Batson, Eklund, Chermok, Hoyt, & Ortiz, 2007; Davis, 2004; Finlay & Stephan, 2000; Johnson, Ashburn-Nardo, Spicer, & Dovidio, 2008).”
Experiencing Alien-Nation: Effects of a simulation intervention on attitudes toward homosexuals☆ (2009, background): “Finlay and Stephan (2000) note that most interventions focus on information-based cognitive ap-”
Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists. (2003, background): “…though, that increased contact with other groups (Pettigrew, 1998) is helpful, particularly if in this contact, the individuals are of equal status and the psychologist is able to take the other’s perspective (Galinsky & Moskowitz, 2000) and has empathy for him/her (Finlay & Stephan, 2000).”
The Effect of Empathy in Environmental Moral Reasoning (2010, background): “…is affected by his or her plight would stimulate emotions of sympathy, compassion, and tenderness, improving attitudes toward different objects and groups, such as AIDS victims, the homeless and racial and ethnic minorities (Batson et al., 1997; Finlay & Stephan, 2000; Stephan & Finlay, 1999).”
Building better work places through individual perspective taking: A fresh look at a fundamental human process (2008, background): “Finlay & Stephan (2000) proposed that perspective taking could reduce prejudice via arousing feelings of cognitive dissonance.”
Group Empathy Theory: The Effect of Group Empathy on US Intergroup Attitudes and Behavior in the Context of Immigration Threats (2016, background): “Empathy also seems to diminish in‐group–out‐group bias, prejudice, and stereotyping (Finlay and Stephan 2000; Galinsky and Moskowitz 2000).”