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Reducing prejudice through intergroup contact interventions / Rebecca Littman, Alexandra Scacco, and Chagai Weiss -- Redrawing the boundaries : creating positive intergroup relations interventions through shared values, memberships, and identities / Danielle Blaylock, Rhiannon N. Turner, and Richard J. Crisp -- Empathy and perspective-taking interventions in intergroup contexts : catalysts, caveats, and contraindications / Jacquie D. Vorauer and Corey Petsnik -- Using social norms to promote positive relations between social groups / Sohad Murrar and Markus Brauer -- Diversity training is just teaching / Calvin K. Lai, R. Grace Drake, and Jennifer F. Beatty -- Self-affirmation and intergroup biases : changing the narrative and the potential for conflict reduction / David K. Sherman, W. Connor Gibbs, and Kevin R. Binning -- Malleability interventions in intergroup relations / Smadar Cohen-Chen, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross, and Eran Halperin -- Using intergroup emotion regulation interventions to reduce intergroup conflict / Tamar Avichail, Maya Tamir, James Gross, and Eran Halperin -- 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 -- Interventions based on moral exemplars / Marta Witkowska, Michal Bilewicz, and Sabina Čehajić-Clancy -- The power of correcting meta-perceptions for improving intergroup relationships / Samantha L. Moore-Berg -- School-based interventions to improve intergroup relations from early childhood to adolescence / Dearbháile Counihan and Laura K. Taylor -- Promoting peace through mass media interventions / Rebecca Littman, Rezarta Bilali, and Boaz Hameiri -- Improving intergroup relations through interactive media / Béatrice S. Hasler, Yiftach Ron, and Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss.

This study is designed to teach readers of the human problems of leadership, and to show new conceptions of leadership and new methods of training relevant to our modern industrial society.

AbstractInter-ethnic residential segregation is correlated with intergroup bias and conflict, poorly functioning states and civil societies, weak economic development, and ethnocentric political behavior. As such, segregation has been a subject of long-standing interest. However, segregation has not been assigned in randomized controlled trials, so the observed correlations may be spurious and the mechanism behind these correlations is poorly understood. In two experiments, we randomly assign segregation in a laboratory and demonstrate that segregation affects perceptions of other people and causes intergroup bias in costly decision-making. Rather than segregation merely inhibiting intergroup contact, we demonstrate that segregation directly affects perception and thus can affect intergroup relations even when holding contact constant.

Multiculturalism as an ideology to manage culturally diverse societies argues that when cultural group distinctiveness is valued and promoted, positive intergroup relations would ensue (e.g. Modood, 2007; Parekh, 2001). Social psychological research has mainly looked at multiculturalism in terms of its endorsement by majority and minority group members and its implications for intergroup relations and acculturation processes. However, multiculturalism is not only about the maintenance of ethnic identities and cultures but also about the full participation of all ethno-cultural groups in society. This means that (i) individuals have to make sense of how their collective identities (e.g. ethnic, religious, national) come together and (ii) politically, multicultural societies are about equitable participation and hence inclusion, decision-making and power. The dissertation attempted to contribute to the social psychological literature on multiculturalism by looking at intergroup evaluations and also examine multiple identifications and the evaluations of (group) decision-making. The social identity approach provided the main theoretical framework from which to derive predictions. The studies were carried out in an under-researched social context of the nation as a 'fruit salad' (i.e. Mauritius) where multiculturalism is the predominant ideology. Mauritius is often considered as a successful polyethnic society (Eriksen, 2004). Survey data was collected among adolescent participants (age range 11 years to 19 years) of the three main ethnic groups, i.e. Hindus (n = 844), Muslims (n = 630) and Creoles (n = 310). Although the socio-historical context of Mauritius is specific, it provided a real-life equivalence to the theoretical understanding of multiculturalism. The results are thus revealing of the forms that intergroup relations can take when multiculturalism is relatively uncontested. It was found that majority and minority adolescents' attitudes and views on the different measures were functionally similar: ...