Summary
Contents
Subject index
This book is intended both as supplementary reading for courses and as a practical guidebook for individuals and programs interested in reducing prejudice and improving intergroup relations. It provides the only comprehensive review and compilation of techniques of improving intergroup relations. There's a huge amount of literature on the causes and nature of prejudice, reflecting great interest in the topic, but the literature on prejudice reduction is more scattered, spread across a range of theoretical and applied sources. This book brings these literatures together with an emphasis on helping to elucidate what works and why.
Conclusions
Conclusions
In this chapter, we present an overall assessment of the programs to improve intergroup relations that we have examined in this book. We first briefly describe the components of each program and summarize the research on their impact. Next, we assess the overall success of intergroup relations programs and critique both the nature of the research and the discipline as a whole. Afterwards, we discuss the psychological processes these programs evoke that could lead to improvements in intergroup relations. Then, we make recommendations for the design of effective programs to improve intergroup relations, and we consider a number of decisions that must be made in the creation of intergroup relations programs.
Programs to Improve Intergroup Relations
In addition to varying on the degree to which they ...
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