Out-group mind perception before and after territorial conflict: Empathy as a key to reducing extreme prejudice

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To examine the vicissitudes of dehumanized perception, participants in the threat condition were led to think that a nation “X” hinders Japan’s economic advances in foreign markets. In addition to the experimental manipulation, data were collected at two points to see whether a (real) territorial dispute affects mind perception of members of the out-group. Results suggest that extreme prejudice is not an ordinary phenomenon, but a territorial dispute is one detrimental cause of dehumanized perception that may be used for justification of wrongdoing. It was also found that the high-empathy group was more likely to see human characteristics in the target than did the low- and medium-empathy groups irrespective of the time and condition. To encourage adaptive ways to deal with intergroup conflicts, empathy may be one of the key ingredients.

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