Threats and anti-semitic blaming

A strategy for efficiently and effectively reducing anti-Semitic stereo-typing was presented, supported by the results of a questionnaire responded to by 15 randomly selected students between the ages of 18 and 32 years, at L.I.F.E. Bible College (associated with the Pentacostal Four-Square Church) in San Dimas, CA in 1993. Relationships predicted among stereotypic blaming and related threats were supported by the data--principally, that very negative combinations of common blamings called compound blamings, e.g., "Jews are rich because Jews are more dishonest," correlated significantly with a large group of far less negative anti-Semitic blamings and related threats. It was argued that a single compound blaming when deconditioned in a classroom, would be more effective in reducing over-all anti-Semitic blaming than deconditioning any other blaming or by using the more traditional group discussion or lecture methods for reducing prejudicial attitudes.