ProSocial-Living

In the current political climate of increasing polarization, otherization and dehumanization, creative and targeted measures that increase pro-sociality and decrease prejudicial attitudes toward minoritized individuals are needed.

The current study aims to expand the evidence on the psychoneurophisiology of prejudice toward minoritized groups (i.e., religious, ethnic-racial, and sexual minorities), and on potential buffers of intergroup prejudice, by developing and testing the efficacy of two pro-sociality cultivation programs on increasing pro-social motivations and decreasing prejudicial attitudes, and examining their neurophysiological correlates (HRV, cortisol, vasopressin, oxytocin), in a three-arm experimental design (empathy-focused intervention– EFI; compassion focused intervention– CFI; waiting-list- WL).