Psychological Intergroup Interventions

This book introduces a comprehensive and integrative collection of psychological intergroup interventions. These evidence-based interventions are scientifically established and tested in several real-world contexts of intergroup animosities and tensions, from prejudice and inequality reduction to peace promotion.

Autorentext

Eran Halperin is a Professor of Psychology and the head and founder of "aChord: Social Psychology for Social Change" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Boaz Hameiri is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Evens Program in Conflict Management and Mediation at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Rebecca Littman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago, the United States.

Inhalt

List of Contributors

Preface

Part 1: Psychological Intergroup Interventions

Chapter 1: Reducing Prejudice through Intergroup Contact Interventions

Rebecca Littman, Alexandra Scacco, and Chagai Weiss

Chapter 2: Redrawing the boundaries: Creating positive intergroup relations interventions through shared values, memberships, and identities

Danielle Blaylock, Rhiannon N. Turner, and Richard J. Crisp

Chapter 3: Empathy and Perspective-Taking Interventions in Intergroup Contexts: Catalysts, Caveats, and Contraindications

Jacquie D. Vorauer and Corey Petsnik

Chapter 4: Using Social Norms to Promote Positive Relations Between Social Groups

Sohad Murrar and Markus Brauer

Chapter 5: Diversity Training is Just Teaching

Calvin K. Lai, R. Grace Drake, and Jennifer F. Beatty

Chapter 6: Self-Affirmation and Intergroup Biases: Changing the Narrative and the Potential for Conflict Reduction

David K. Sherman, W. Connor Gibbs, and Kevin R. Binning

Chapter 7: Malleability Interventions in Intergroup Relations

Smadar Cohen-Chen, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross, and Eran Halperin

Chapter 8: Using Intergroup Emotion Regulation Interventions to Reduce Intergroup Conflict

Tamar Avichail, Maya Tamir, James Gross, and Eran Halperin

Chapter 9: Paradoxical Thinking Interventions in Intergroup Conflicts: A Promising Method to Affect Cognitions and Behavior Among People with Strongly Held Attitudes

Shira Hebel-Sela, Nadine Knab, and Boaz Hameiri

Chapter 10: Interventions Based on Moral Exemplars

Marta Witkowska, Michal Bilewicz, and Sabina ehaji-Clancy

Chapter 11: The power of correcting meta-perceptions for improving intergroup relationships

Samantha L. Moore-Berg

Part 2: Platforms for Delivering Psychological Intergroup Interventions

Chapter 12: School-based Interventions to Improve Intergroup Relations from Early Childhood to Adolescence

Dearbháile Counihan and Laura K. Taylor

Chapter 13: Promoting Peace through Mass Media Interventions

Rebecca Littman, Rezarta Bilali, and Boaz Hameiri

Chapter 14: Improving Intergroup Relations through Interactive Media

Béatrice S. Hasler, Yiftach Ron, and Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss