Helping out-groups in times of crisis : application of the Benjamin Franklin Effect to intergroup contexts

• Main Author: Quek, Jing Xuan
• Other Authors: Bobby K. Cheon
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/149630
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Improving positive intergroup attitudes and helping stigmatized out-groups is challenging today. The Benjamin Franklin Effect (BFE) seems to be one promising mechanism to encourage such changes. It predicts that when one performs a favor for someone whom they have neutral or negative feelings for, o...