1st Edition
Psychological Intergroup Interventions Evidence-based Approaches to Improve Intergroup Relations
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.
Intergroup hostility, violence, and discrimination have become more and more prevalent in recent decades. To address this challenge, recently, social scientists have shown an increasing shift from a descriptive to a more interventionist science, developing evidence-based interventions to improve intergroup relations. For the first time, this book includes research on intergroup interventions and their applications to the field, from a global collection of leading voices in the discipline. It also includes a conceptualization of intergroup interventions, a typology of different types of interventions, as well as a guideline for effective development of intergroup interventions. Each chapter focuses on one psychological intergroup intervention, further reviewing a sample of relevant platforms such as education, entertainment, and VR, upon which psychological intergroup interventions can be implemented.
With each chapter featuring both intervention research and practical advice for practitioners, this is the ideal companion for researchers and professionals in social psychology, sociology, politics, peace studies and conflict resolution. It will also be of interest to practitioners looking for practical advice to create an impact in the real-world.
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 Čehajić-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
Biography
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.
