In Chapter 9, you read about four criteria (equal status, common goals, work cooperatively, institutional support) that need to be met in order for contact between hostile groups to decrease prejudices. In this assignment, you will reflect on these criteria and develop a program to reduce prejudice. Compose an essay that includes the following components: an explanation of how one’s tendency to perceive others using either the halo effect or the fundamental attribution error could contribute to developing prejudices, a description of the four criteria (equal status, common goals, work cooperatively, institutional support)used to reduce prejudice, and a discussion of the two criteria that you think are most important and why. After providing a brief overview of the article’s main findings, address the following points. Describe a prejudice reduction program you could implement based on the two criteria that you previously selected as most important. Explain why you believe this program will be effective by drawing on research concerning prejudice and discrimination. Discuss how the program would be implemented. Be specific in who would be targeted, where this program would take place, and how you see the program being executed.
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