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3.Choosing emotions to target wisely Tapping into emotions or feelings as a catalyst for changing attitudes and behaviours While collective guilt is related to not feeling prejudice, because few people report collective guilt (because it is an aversive emotion) less appropriate to tap into More appropriate to encourage empathy, compassion or moral outrage as these are ‘other focused’…described as aiming for participants to ‘walk in somebody else’s shoes’ 4.Emphasise commonality and different Not only emphasising similarity between ‘ingroups’ and ‘outgroups’ but also acknowledging difference as valuable and a source of strength Need to emphasise disadvantage as well as different (ie not a level playing field) Incorporate a decentring of the mainstream Australia as the implicit norm with which all other groups should be compared. 5.Meet local needs in the design and delivery of the intervention (context matters) Local needs need to be taken into account (doing something in USA needs a different strategy to something in Kalgoorlie). Factors such as age, education, how many people of a particular arginalized group lives around the area are important considerations Interventions are more likely to be effective when specific about needs of locality, and time has been spent with local communities to learn about their situations Some mechanisms, such as consensus effects (see 6.) and white privilege (see 10) are more applicable in some locations than others.
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