Participants who practiced lovingkindness meditation showed significantly less implicit intergroup bias toward Black people and Homeless people at the end of the 6-week intervention compared to the baseline survey before the intervention.

Lovingkindness Meditation Practice Interventions to Reduce Implicit Intergroup Bias 

Implicit Bias refers to beliefs or attitudes toward a group of people that are outside of one's conscious thinking.

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Lovingkindness meditation practice has been demonstrated to be effective in reducing social biases toward culturally stigmatized groups such as Black people and homeless people. 

Impacts of Lovingkindness Meditation on Intergroup Biases toward Black and Homeless Populations

The holding of a viewpoint, favorable or unfavorable, about a idea, person, or group, that is unwarranted given available information

Bias

Implicit bias explained. Perception Institute. (2017, May 17). https://perception.org/research/implicit-bias/. 

Perception Institute: Implicit Bias

Implicit Bias

A preconceived notion, often negative, held by an individual or group against another individual or group. Typically prejudice is held against a group due to one or more immutable characteristics, activities, or beliefs that characterize that group.

Prejudice

Using heuristics in reasoning under uncertainty leads to predictable biases in behavior.  

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