Higher moral reasoning correlates with and may lower prejudice.

Evidence

Several studies show that high levels of moral development are linked with low levels of prejudice (Davidson & Davidson, 1994) and acceptance of outgroups (Battistich et al., 1995), suggesting that increasing moral development may reduce prejudice. The only study we are aware of that assessed the effects of a moral education program on prejudice found that eighth-grade students who participated in the “Facing History and Ourselves” program (a program that examines moral issues in light of the Holocaust) had significantly lower scores on the modern racism scale than did a control group (Schultz, Barr, & Selman, 2001). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2679

Categorization

• QUESTION: A single study linking ‘Facing History and Ourselves’ to lower modern racism scores — the causal chain from moral reasoning to prejudice reduction seems under-evidenced; worth checking for newer replication studies.