WISE INTERVENTIONS

Pairs of White and Latino undergraduates got to know each other using a “fast friends” procedure, asking and answering a series of increasingly self-disclosing questions and playing cooperative games over three sessions. Over this period, students, especially those higher in prejudice and in worries about prejudice, showed strong declines in cortisol levels, a stress hormone. Moreover, as compared to students in same-race dyads, the intervention led students with higher initial levels of prejudice to initiate more cross-group interactions on campus over the next ten days.