A collective blame hypocrisy intervention enduringly reduces hostility towards Muslims.
Journal
Nature human behaviour
ISSN: 2397-3374
Titre abrégé: Nat Hum Behav
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101697750
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2020
01 2020
Historique:
received:
22
04
2018
accepted:
29
08
2019
pubmed:
9
10
2019
medline:
15
4
2020
entrez:
9
10
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Hostility towards outgroups contributes to costly intergroup conflict. Here we test an intervention to reduce hostility towards Muslims, a frequently targeted outgroup. Our 'collective blame hypocrisy' intervention highlights the hypocrisy involved in the tendency for people to collectively blame outgroup but not ingroup members for blameworthy actions of individual group members. Using both within-subject and between-subject comparisons in a preregistered longitudinal study in Spain, we find that our intervention reduces collective blame of Muslims and downstream anti-Muslim sentiments relative to a matched control condition and that the effects of the intervention persist one month and also one year later. We replicate the benefits of the intervention in a second study. The effects are mediated by reductions in collective blame and moderated by individual differences in preference for consistency. Together, these data illustrate that the collective blame hypocrisy intervention enduringly reduces harmful intergroup attitudes associated with conflict escalation, particularly among those who value consistency in themselves and others.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31591519
doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0747-7
pii: 10.1038/s41562-019-0747-7
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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