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.

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

Implicit Bias

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

Kang, Y., Gray, J. R., & Dovidio, J. F. (2014). The nondiscriminating heart: Lovingkindness meditation training decreases implicit intergroup bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1306–1313. 

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