This article is a reply to a critique by Williams and Gils of a previous article on prejudice-reduction simulations. The three areas of concern include the ethics of conducting prejudice-reduction simulations, the evaluation of simulation effectiveness, and the correspondence between social psychological theory and simulation practice.
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