Social Psychology, Vol 54(6), 2023, 348-359; doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000532
According to previous research, taking the perspective of an outgroup member reduces intergroup bias. These effects were demonstrated on explicit evaluations, explicit stereotyping, and automatic evaluations of the outgroup. We investigated whether perspective taking reduces automatic stereotyping and whether effects on automatic evaluation replicate with a novel paradigm of perspective taking. Across two studies, we found that perspective taking increased self-reported likeability of and perceived similarity to the target of perspective taking. Moreover, perspective taking influenced automatic stereotype-based judgments (Study 1) and automatic evaluations (Study 2) of the target of perspective taking. However, the effects did not generalize to the ethnic group as a whole. We discuss features of perspective taking paradigms that may be key for effectively reducing automatic intergroup bias. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)