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We compare this\n                    <jats:italic>meta‐humanization</jats:italic>\n                    condition with a\n                    <jats:italic>meta‐dehumanization</jats:italic>\n                    condition in which the participant's ingroup is perceived to be less human than the outgroup (Experiments 1 and 3), a\n                    <jats:italic>meta‐liking</jats:italic>\n                    condition in which the participant's ingroup is liked as much as the outgroup (Experiment 2), and a\n                    <jats:italic>control</jats:italic>\n                    condition (Experiments 1 and 2). Overall, results showed that participants in the meta‐humanization condition attributed more empathy and prosocial motives to a potential outgroup helper and were more willing to accept outgroup help and engage in future intergroup contact than participants in the other conditions. In addition, positive perceptions of the outgroup helper mediated the effect of meta‐humanization on willingness to accept outgroup help and engage in intergroup contact. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings for intergroup relations and reconciliation efforts.\n                  </jats:p>","journal":"British Journal of Social Psychology","year":2021,"id":590894,"datarank":1.1741348185275735,"base_score":3.8712010109078907,"endowment":3.8712010109078907,"self_citation_contribution":0.5806801516361837,"citation_network_contribution":0.5934546668913898,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5806801516361837,"citer_contribution":0.5934546668913898,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":47,"citer_count":38,"citers_with_citation_signal":19,"citers_with_endowment":19,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1511767,"name":"Linda R. 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