{"id":53,"date":"2013-06-21T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=53"},"modified":"2015-01-15T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T12:19:52","slug":"new-intervention-helps-promote-tolerance-in-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2013\/06\/21\/new-intervention-helps-promote-tolerance-in-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"New intervention helps promote tolerance in individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologists have shown that diversity promotes tolerance towards different groups if it catches people by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published by PLoS ONE, Dr Milica Vasiljevic of the\u00a0University of Kent\u00a0and Professor Richard Crisp of the\u00a0University of Sheffield\u00a0explain how they conducted a series of experiments in which participants (British undergraduates) thought of surprising combinations of social categories such as overweight model, rich student, female firefighter or male midwife.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/stories\/new-intervention-helps-promote-tolerance-milica-vasiljevic\/2013\">press release<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057106\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologists have shown that diversity promotes tolerance towards different groups if it catches people by surprise. In a paper published by PLoS ONE, Dr Milica &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2013\/06\/21\/new-intervention-helps-promote-tolerance-in-individuals\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14802,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,3684,70],"tags":[140632],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}