Alleviating xenophobia : can reading narratives that humanize foreigner protagonists change our attitudes towards them ?

Reading narratives have been thought to provide an indirect contact between groups and thus, changing attitudes. This study explores the effect of reading various descriptions (i.e. mental or physical) or prosocial motives (i.e. empathy-induced altruistic or self-interested egoistic) in written narr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Teo, Kah Shun
Other Authors: Wan Ching
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70346