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How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? Can stereotypes and prejudice be reduced? One approach to reducing prejudice is to increase contact between members of groups who are or could be prejudiced toward each other, in a positive and nonthreatening context such as a school or camp (Pettigrew & Tropp, 2011; Raabe & Beelmann, 2011). In one classic study, the Robbers Cave Experiment, two groups of 11-year-old boys at a summer camp, whose prejudice against each other had been fostered by team competitions such as a tug-of-war and a scavenger hunt, were brought together to solve a common problem, fixing a broken water main at the camp (Sherif, 1966). After the cooperative experience of repairing the water problem, the campers' attitudes toward members of the other group improved. Contemporary researchers have also found that reducing competiveness is an important way to decrease prejudice (Abrams & Rutland, 2008). A second way to reduce children's prejudice is to have adults point out the individual characteristics of members of the other group. When teachers were asked to encourage students in their classes to pay attention to individual characteristics of their classmates rather than racial qualities, for example, prejudice in students decreased (Aboud et al., 2012). Need Assignment Help?