Trial reportNature human behaviour2020
Exposure to peers' pro-diversity attitudes increases inclusion and reduces the achievement gap.
Trial report in Nature human behaviour, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Improving diversity in research: Successes and limitations of research team education in fostering inclusive recruitment practices and community voice.Accountability in research · 2026Trial
- Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today.Psychological science · 2025Trial
- Effect of a Workshop to Break the Bias Habit for Internal Medicine Faculty: A Multisite Cluster Randomized Controlled Study.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2023Trial
- "It's Like Disrupting Internally:" a Qualitative Study of Opportunities and Limitations to Promote Diversity in Participant Recruitment in Health Research.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- The Illusion of Disapproval: Pluralistic Ignorance and Attitudes Toward Tattooed Teachers.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- The effect of praise from peers on empathy and political inclusion towards racial or ethnic outgroups.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Associations between inclusivity norms and tolerance, contact, and cooperation amid polarization: Evidence from 12 European countries.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- A wolf in sheep's clothing? The interplay of perceived threat and social norms in hierarchy-maintaining action tendencies towards disadvantaged groups.The British journal of social psychology · 2025Article
- It's not what you say it's what you do: School diversity ideologies and adolescent mental health and academic engagement.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Our ways will not change: Future collective continuity increases present prosocial considerations.The British journal of social psychology · 2025Article
- Diversity and inclusion have greater support than most Americans think.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Zoom out: An intervention on the virtual learning environment improves minority students' grades in two field experiments in Israel.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Trust within human-machine collectives depends on the perceived consensus about cooperative norms.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Inclusive classroom climate development as the cornerstone of inclusive school building: review and perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Turning ingroup wounds into bonds: perceptions of gender inequalities predict attitudes toward other minorities.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Diversity Training Goals, Limitations, and Promise: A Review of the Multidisciplinary Literature.Annual review of psychology · 2022Review
- Critical Faculty and Peer Instructor Development: Core Components for Building Inclusive STEM Programs in Higher Education.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Gender (Im)balance in Citation Practices in Cognitive Neuroscience.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
- Race and the Ivory Tower: An Antiracism Exercise for an Undergraduate Neuroscience Classroom.Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
There is a dearth of empirically validated pro-diversity methods that effectively create a more inclusive social climate. We developed two scalable interventions that target people's perceptions of social norms by communicating to them that their peers hold pro-diversity attitudes and engage in inclusive behaviours. We tested the interventions in six randomized controlled trials at a large public university in the United States (total n = 2,490). Non-marginalized students exposed to our interventions reported more positive attitudes toward outgroups and greater appreciation of diversity, whereas marginalized students had an increased sense of belonging, reported being treated more inclusively by their peers and earned better grades. While many current pro-diversity initiatives focus on raising awareness about the fact that implicit bias and subtle discrimination are widespread, our findings spotlight the importance of drawing people's attention to their peers' pro-diversity values and attitudes to create positive and lasting effects on the social climate.
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