Toward a social-psychology of prejudice reduction: Examining lay beliefs

This project aims to expand social-psychological knowledge of prejudice by examining beliefs about what prejudice is, as well as the social and psychological factors affecting these beliefs.

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This Project aims to expand social-psychological knowledge of prejudice by examining beliefs about what prejudice is, as well as the social and psychological factors affecting these beliefs. If people believe their own intergroup attitudes (even negative ones) to be correct and normative, anti-prejudice appeals will likely be rejected. What is needed, then, is an analysis of what people believe to be prejudice or not in the first place, and how these beliefs are changed. This Project aims to provide this analysis via qualitative and quantitative experimental social-psychological research. Project outcomes are expected to clarify social-psychological theory, offering new insight into how anti-prejudice arguments can be maximally successful.

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Michael Platow

Professor in Psychology