Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Humanizing Homework Assignment to Reduce Transprejudice Among Students Taking an Introductory Course in Abnormal Psychology

Students completed an assignment exploring transgender issues that included either humanizing or diagnosis-centered educational tasks. The humanizing condition reported significantly less transphobia than the education condition. Higher levels of transphobia for the education condition, in comparison to pre-test averages, suggest the importance of incorporating experiential learning, vicarious contact, and perspective-taking.