Perspective taking and prejudice reduction: the mediational role of empathy arousal and situational attributions

By T. K. Vescio, G. B. Sechrist, Matthew P. Paolucci. 2003

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Getting there is only half the battle : Stigma consciousness and maintaining diversity in higher education (2005, background): “Work on the role of empathy in reducing prejudice also suggests that people who try to put themselves in the place of stigmatized group members do evidence more favorable attitudes toward the stigmatized ( Vescio, Sechrist, & Paolucci, 2003 ).”
Perspective Taking: Reducing Prejudice Towards General Outgroups and Specific Individuals (2009, background): “Vescio, Sechrist, and Paolucci (2003) found that empathy arousal induced by instructing participants to take the perspective of the Black target, improved intergroup attitudes, regardless of whether the target acted stereotypically or not.”
The power of being heard: The benefits of ‘perspective-giving’ in the context of intergroup conflict (2012, background): “, 1997), watching a video about an outgroup member (Vescio et al., 2003; Vorauer & Sasaki, 2009), or role-playing (Clore & Jeffery, 1972; Stewart, Laduke, Bracht, Sweet, & Gamarel, 2003).”
A social mindfulness approach to understanding experienced customer mistreatment: A within-person field experiment (2017, background): “On the one hand, perspective taking may reduce negative affective reactions by increasing service employees’ other-orientation and causing them to attribute customer mistreatment to non-self (e.g., situational) factors (Vescio et al., 2003).”
Perspective taking combats the denial of intergroup discrimination (2012, background): “, 2012), others have shown that adopting the perspective of a particular outgroupmember can engender more positive evaluations of that person's group (Batson et al., 1997; Dovidio et al., 2004; Galinsky and Ku, 2004; Galinsky and Moskowitz, 2000; Todd et al., 2011; Vescio et al., 2003).”
Seeing Through Their Eyes: When Majority Group Members Take Collective Action on Behalf of an Outgroup (2008, background): “Following Vescio et al. (2003), half of the participants read instructions to take the perspective of the targeted group while they read the summary: When reading about the incidents, pay careful attention to the content of the material, but try to step into the shoes of the African American…”
The greatest magic of Harry Potter: Reducing prejudice (2015, unknown): “…adoptedbyanotherperson(Stephan&Finlay,1999),together with its emotional counterpart, that is, empathy, has been shown to have beneﬁcial effects on out-group attitudes and intergroup behaviors (e.g., Batson, 2010; Galinsky, Maddux, Gilin, & White, 2008; Vescio, Sechrist, & Paolucci, 2003).”
EMPATHY AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS (2010, background): “Vescio, Sechrist, and Paolucci (2003) also used the Batson et al. (1997)”
Advances in Intergroup Contact (2012, result): “It is interesting to note that the two studies using an imagine-other perspective (Shih et al., 2009; Vescio et al., 2003) did not find wider attitude generalization effects while the study that used the imagine-self perspective (Galinsky & Moskowitz, 2000) did.”