Research, especially on children’s attitudes toward race, has found that racism is generally an acquired, or learned, prejudice not necessarily inherent in humans. On the other hand, evidence suggests that people also have an inherent capability to connect with others. Specifically, learned racism can block people’s instinctual empathy, and a lack of empathy is more likely to foster a racist worldview. Greater interaction with people of different races can lessen racist attitudes and increase empathy, but experts suggest that social empathy, or the ability to understand the larger social forces that promote racism, is also necessary to limit and eventually overcome its effects.