Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2018

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Social discrimination is a common experience with measurable consequences for those affected. The effects include poorer mental health and poverty, issues which are commonly addressed by human service professionals. People who are transgender are particular targets of discrimination and, as such, find themselves in need of human service assistance at levels disproportionate to the larger population. Research from social psychology suggests that intergroup contact reduces prejudice. This quasi-experiment explored the effect a transgender speaker, followed by informal social interaction, had on measures of transgender prejudice in a sample of college students

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© 2018 National Organization for Human Services. This document was published with permission by the conference. It was originally published in Proceedings of the 2017 National Organization of Human Services Conference.

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