Abstract
The Christchurch mosque shooting highlighted the extreme violence that can be born of prejudice. Prejudice has many negative outcomes for the target groups, well-being, mental and physical health have been shown to be impacted. These detrimental consequences call attention to the need to identify ways with which prejudice can be reduced. When shared group identity is highlighted in experiments this has been shown to reduce prejudice. The contact hypothesis where inter-group contact is hypothesized to reduce prejudice has also seen experimental support. In this experiment participants of European and Chinese/Asian ethnicities undertook a task which was aimed to encourage intergroup contact as well as making shared identity and humanity salient as well as measures for social understanding. It was hypothesized that this intervention would reduce prejudice, and that there would be a relationship between social understanding and prejudice. Results did not support the first hypothesis with the intervention leading to increases to prejudice correlates which I suggest was due to increased threat. The relation between social understanding received support with Chinese participants social understanding negatively correlating with prejudice predicates and a relationship found between both groups social understanding and in-group/out-group favouritism.