Sentence examples for decrease prejudice from inspiring English sources

As I've said for 30 years, the best way to decrease prejudice is to increase discrimination.

But research shows that there is a very simple thing that helps decrease prejudice: cross-group friendships.

A 2008 meta-analysis of studies on intergroup contact found that empathy and perspective-taking were among the top three skills that helped decrease prejudice, suggesting that encouraging them in kids can help open the doors to friendship.

These results fit in well with prior research showing empathy is associated with egalitarian political attitudes and the support of diversity, and that interventions to boost empathy decrease prejudice, says Miklikowska.

As The Post's Jessica Contrera has previously written, some Disney fans have argued it would have been hugely helpful to see gay characters in such movies when they were young, and studies suggest positive depictions of gay characters in entertainment can help decrease prejudice.

Scholars had long accepted that media could persuade people to change their beliefs about the world and reinforce prejudices toward minority groups; this was the first time, however, that researchers shows that media also could educate people about minority groups and decrease prejudice toward minorities.

This suggests that integrated schools have a unique role to play in decreasing prejudice and increasing intergroup friendships.

Hundreds of studies have shown that people who have contact with a member of a different racial, ethnic, age, functional, or occupational group exhibit decreased prejudice toward that group.

The study of cross-group friendships came out of a long history of research looking at the "contact hypothesis". Originally coined by psychologist Gordon Allport in 1954, the hypothesis stated that positive interpersonal contact between racial and ethnic groups decreases prejudice.

Fierstein responded that the show's inclusion in the parade reflected decreasing prejudice and increased tolerance for LGBT people in society.

In five separate studies, Mr. Schiappa and his colleagues have found that the presence of gay characters on television programs decreases prejudices among viewers of the programs.