Jed Ronsenkrantz
Department of Psychology
1202 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI, 53706
Phone: 608-265-3960

Is it possible that diversity training programs in employment and educational settings are creating outcomes that are directly counter to their intentions?  Specifically, does the pressure participants in these programs experience to achieve attitude change, and the subsequent monitoring of such change, actually interrupt the development and quality of interracial interactions? Or are diversity training programs an effective means of improving interracial interactions, but only for some people?  I am currently attempting to answer these questions by mimicking a “real world” diversity training scenario.