Reducing Prejudice and Increasing Cooperation between Groups from Different Cultural Backgrounds

Psychology: Reducing Prejudice and Increasing Cooperation between Groups from Different Cultural Backgrounds
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Psychology: Reducing Prejudice and Increasing Cooperation between Groups from Different Cultural Backgrounds
People from different cultural backgrounds may express two forms of biases, including explicit and implicit prejudices. While explicit prejudice is largely verbalized, publicly expressed, and difficult to measure, implicit prejudices encompass values, attitudes, and beliefs that can be measured through Implicit Association Test (IAT). Aspects of personality, competition between different groups, and kinship sentiments, as well as cultural and social factors, encourage prejudice (Matsumoto & Juang, 2017). However, according to Gordon Allport’s (1954) contact hypothesis, the contact between individuals from different cultural backgrounds can significantly reduce intergroup conflict and prejudice (Hopper, 2019). This theory has been applied around the world to improve social relationships and policy formulation through the support of institutional and social authorities, having common goals, intergroup cooperation, and equal status.
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