Mimicry reduces racial prejudice

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Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias. (2013, background): “This could be the case since the virtual characters that walked by the participant clearly entered their proxemics intimate zone (Hall, 1969), and proxemics is known to operate in IVR (Bailenson, Blascovich, Beall, & Loomis, 2003; Llobera, Spanlang, Ruffini, & Slater, 2010).”
The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. (2013, background): “Inzlicht et al. (2012) had participants watch a video in which a member of an ingroup or outgroup reached for a glass and drank water repeatedly; they were then asked to either mimic the behaviors of the confederate or not before completing measures of both implicit and explicit prejudice.”