How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model
This article assesses the mechanisms whereby first-person narratives featuring stigmatized immigrants improve outgroup attitudes and encourage intergroup contact among prejudiced individuals. We rely on a 2 (imagined contact vs. control) × 2 (similar vs. dissimilar message protagonist) experiment on...
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| author | Igartua, Juan‐José Wojcieszak, Magdalena Kim, Nuri |
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| description | This article assesses the mechanisms whereby first-person narratives featuring stigmatized immigrants improve outgroup attitudes and encourage intergroup contact among prejudiced individuals. We rely on a 2 (imagined contact vs. control) × 2 (similar vs. dissimilar message protagonist) experiment on a systematic sample of native British adults. Results show that encouraging imagined contact prior to reading a short testimonial featuring an immigrant protagonist who is similar to the recipients in terms of social identity enhances identification with the protagonist, thereby improving outgroup attitudes and encouraging intergroup contact, and especially strongly among those who are prejudiced toward immigrants (i.e., high on modern racism). Theoretical and practical implications of the findings for the work on imagined contact, narrative persuasion, and identification, as well as for public communication campaigns, are discussed. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1463252021-09-17T06:07:50Z How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model Igartua, Juan‐José Wojcieszak, Magdalena Kim, Nuri Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Social sciences::Communication Narrative Persuasion Identification with the Character This article assesses the mechanisms whereby first-person narratives featuring stigmatized immigrants improve outgroup attitudes and encourage intergroup contact among prejudiced individuals. We rely on a 2 (imagined contact vs. control) × 2 (similar vs. dissimilar message protagonist) experiment on a systematic sample of native British adults. Results show that encouraging imagined contact prior to reading a short testimonial featuring an immigrant protagonist who is similar to the recipients in terms of social identity enhances identification with the protagonist, thereby improving outgroup attitudes and encouraging intergroup contact, and especially strongly among those who are prejudiced toward immigrants (i.e., high on modern racism). Theoretical and practical implications of the findings for the work on imagined contact, narrative persuasion, and identification, as well as for public communication campaigns, are discussed. Research work developed thanks to the financial sup-port granted by Spanish Ministry of Economy andCompetitiveness to the project entitled “Narrative toolsto reduce prejudice. Effects of similarity, imaginedcontact, empathy and narrative voice” (reference:CSO2015-67611-P). 2021-02-09T07:00:42Z 2021-02-09T07:00:42Z 2018 Journal Article Igartua, J.-J., Wojcieszak, M., & Kim, N. (2018). How the interplay of imagined contact and first‐person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(2), 385-397. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2509 0046-2772 0000-0002-9865-2714 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146325 10.1002/ejsp.2509 2-s2.0-85062029332 2 49 385 397 en European Journal of Social Psychology © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Communication Narrative Persuasion Identification with the Character Igartua, Juan‐José Wojcieszak, Magdalena Kim, Nuri How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model |
| title | How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model |
| title_full | How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model |
| title_fullStr | How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model |
| title_full_unstemmed | How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model |
| title_short | How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model |
| title_sort | how the interplay of imagined contact and first person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants a conditional process model |
| topic | Social sciences::Communication Narrative Persuasion Identification with the Character |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146325 |
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