Charlotte R. Pennington
The malleability of stigmatizing attitudes: Combining imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback
Pennington, Charlotte R.; Pennington, Charlotte; Campbell, Claire; Monk, Rebecca L.; Heim, Derek
Authors
Charlotte Pennington Charlotte.Pennington@uwe.ac.uk
Lecturer in Social Psychology
Claire Campbell
Rebecca L. Monk
Derek Heim
Abstract
© 2016, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Research is reported that examines whether imagined social contact combined with implicit attitude feedback may be an effective intervention for inducing changes in attitudes toward mental ill health. The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) captured participants’ implicit attitudes toward individuals with a mental illness and provided a measure of attitude bias. Forty-eight participants (17 male, 95.8% White British) were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions: (1) Imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback, (2) imagined social contact without feedback, (3) control with feedback, and (4) control without feedback. This resulted in a data set detailing 12,288 implicit responses, with each participant completing 256 IRAP trials. Participants then completed an attitude change assessment 24 hours later. Results revealed that imagined social contact was successful in changing implicit attitudes, with the addition of implicit attitude feedback further strengthening participants’ positive attitudes toward mental ill health. Explicit attitudes remained unaffected. These findings are the first to highlight the practical importance of combining imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback to improve attitudes toward out-groups who are stigmatized.
Citation
Pennington, C. R., Pennington, C., Campbell, C., Monk, R. L., & Heim, D. (2016). The malleability of stigmatizing attitudes: Combining imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback. American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 19(3), 175-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487768.2016.1171175
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 25, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 20, 2016 |
Publication Date | Jul 2, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Sep 7, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation |
Print ISSN | 1548-7768 |
Electronic ISSN | 1548-7776 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 19 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 175-195 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/15487768.2016.1171175 |
Keywords | attitude change, explicit attitudes, implicit association test, implicit attitudes, implicit relational assessment procedure, mental illness, public stigma |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/908776 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15487768.2016.1171175 |
Additional Information | Additional Information : This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation on 19th August 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15487768.2016.1171175. |
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