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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

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Charlotte R. Pennington

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
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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