Perspective taking: Reducing prejudice towards general outgroups and specific individuals

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 565-577

  Shih, Margaret ^a   Wang, Elsie ^b   Bucher, Amy Trahan ^c   Stotzer, Rebecca ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HealthMedia Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Empathy; Intergroup relations; Perspective taking; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349292540     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209337463     Document Type: Article

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