Research confirms that an effective way to reduce prejudice is through __________

A) segregation of children in classrooms to promote ethnic pride
B) encouraging children to view each other’s personality traits as fixed
C) highlighting group distinctions and sorting children into racial and ethnic groups
D) intergroup contact in racially and ethnically diverse cooperative learning groups


Answer: D

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