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Seeing the World Through the Other's Eye: An Online Intervention Reducing Ethnic Prejudice

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  • SIMONOVITS, GÁBOR
  • KÉZDI, GÁBOR
  • KARDOS, PÉTER

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We report the results of an intervention that targeted anti-Roma sentiment in Hungary using an online perspective-taking game. We evaluated the impact of this intervention using a randomized experiment in which a sample of young adults played this perspective-taking game, or an unrelated online game. Participation in the perspective-taking game markedly reduced prejudice, with an effect-size equivalent to half the difference between voters of the far-right and the center-right party. The effects persisted for at least a month, and, as a byproduct, the intervention also reduced antipathy toward refugees, another stigmatized group in Hungary, and decreased vote intentions for Hungary's overtly racist, far-right party by 10%. Our study offers a proof-of-concept for a general class of interventions that could be adapted to different settings and implemented at low costs.

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  • Simonovits, Gábor & Kézdi, Gábor & Kardos, Péter, 2018. "Seeing the World Through the Other's Eye: An Online Intervention Reducing Ethnic Prejudice," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 112(1), pages 186-193, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:112:y:2018:i:01:p:186-193_00
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