“All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players.” —Act II, Scene VII, As You Like It, by William Shakespeare. Since the early days of psychology, researchers have been interested in ...

People can become less prejudiced, but it's not entirely clear how we make the journey from hatred to acceptance. Something as simple as a shared passion for The Catcher in the Rye can help, ...

NATIONAL – Aside from defeating Lord Voldemort and restoring peace to the world, Harry Potter is also helping to reduce prejudice and bigotry against the LGBT and immigrant communities. In a recent ...

(LOWELL, MASS.) In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts ...

One of my first jobs was in teaching. As a young educator who had grown up in a rural area, the racial prejudice that I saw was shocking. “My students were poor, and they often came to school without ...

You may have heard this famous Mark Twain quote: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable ...

The Human Library intervention appears to be a successful method of reducing prejudice, and even generalizing positive intergroup attitudes to other outgroups. William Shakespeare said we are all ...