Empathy Through Contact: How Adulthood Interactions Foster Intergroup Cooperation

• In Event: Intergroup Contact and Exposure

Brief Overview

A field experiment (N=223) shows that repeated, high-quality intergroup contact fosters outgroup empathy in adults. Empathy mediates reductions in prejudice and ethnocentrism while enhancing solidarity, cooperation, and support for inclusive policies

Author

• Jair A Moreira, University of Pennsylvania