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  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Automatic intergroup evaluations can change through cognitive processes.
  • Perspective taking is a key mechanism explored for altering intergroup attitudes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test an associative self-anchoring account of automatic intergroup evaluation change.
  • To investigate the mediational role of self-outgroup associations in perspective taking.

Main Methods:

  • Multifaceted experimental designs including measurement-of-mediation and experimental-causal-chain.
  • Moderation-of-process designs to examine conditions influencing perspective taking benefits.
  • Longitudinal assessment of automatic intergroup evaluations.

Main Results:

  • Strengthened self-outgroup associations mediated positive effects of perspective taking on automatic evaluations.
  • Negative automatic self-evaluations attenuated perspective taking's benefits, blocking associative transfer.
  • Perspective-taking-induced changes in automatic evaluations were sustained for at least 24 hours.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the associative self-anchoring account of automatic intergroup evaluation change.
  • The study provides evidence against an empathy-based account as the primary mechanism.
  • Automatic self-evaluation transfer offers a novel pathway for modifying intergroup attitudes.