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These results echo a Swedish study published this year, which found that contact between native-born Swedes and immigrants reduced prejudice, even when the kids were raised in homes and neighborhoods with anti-immigrant attitudes.
For example, one study found that a brief loving-kindness meditation reduced prejudice toward homeless people, while another found that a brief mindfulness training decreased unconscious bias against black people and elderly people.
One, from the University of California, Los Angeles, generally found reduced prejudice among students with different-race roommates -- but those who roomed with Asian-Americans, the group that scored the highest on measures of prejudice, became more prejudiced.
In one 2013 study, participants who took part in a short meditation showed reduced prejudice towards the homeless; a study released the following year found similar benefits in terms of reducing prejudice towards African Americans and the elderly.
The straightforward prediction would be that among participants who were asked to empathize with the injustices of the Native Canadian protagonists in the film, the more likely they would be to show reduced prejudice, and the more likely they would be to want to interact with their partner in talking about the film.
"We have shown that positive contact between people belonging to different ethnic groups leads to more tolerant societies overall," said Professor Miles Hewstone of Oxford University who led the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences "Astonishingly, we don't just see reduced prejudice among people who have direct contact with ethnic minorities.
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