Policy treats prejudice as fixable through advantaged groups’ emotional rehabilitation

Evidence

The problem lies with the assumption that it is only a matter of method and approach to get ‘people to like others more and to abandon their negative stereotypes’ (Dixon et al ., 2012 , p. 7). If negative evaluations are the problem, then ‘raising awareness’ (like in the case of the EU legal framework for Roma integration) is usually thought to be the solution. What takes priority is devising procedures for the ‘emotional and cognitive rehabilitation of the advantaged’ (Dixon and Levine, 2012 , p. 315). — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 776

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the prejudice-reduction model as the assumption that awareness-raising fixes negative evaluations.

Related

• EU anti-racism policy reduces bias to a problem of awareness (similarity 0.80)