Reducing implicit prejudice towards migrants in fifth grade pupils: efficacy of a multi-faceted school-based program

Gabrielli, Sara; Catalano, Maria Gaetana; Maricchiolo, Fridanna; Paolini, Daniele; Perucchini, Paola

doi:10.1007/s11218-022-09688-5

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“…Repeated exposure to stereotypical attribution patterns in childhood leads to the automatic activation of these mental shortcuts associating evaluations with social groups, starting from adolescence and remaining essentially stable into adulthood (Greenwald et al 1998;Williams and Steele 2016;Baron and Banaji 2006;Rutland et al 2005). These associations can be effortlessly activated when the individual recalls the social group that is the object of the automatic association, often outside of one's awareness (Degner and Calanchini 2020;Gabrielli et al 2022;Hofmann et al 2005). The inherent characteristics of this automatic and effortless activation characterize implicit associations as a type of rapid and automatic information processing.…”

Section: Dual Information Processing Toward Socio-analytical Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preventing Prejudice Emerging from Misleading News among Adolescents: The Role of Implicit Activation and Regulatory Self-Efficacy in Dealing with Online Misinformation

Corbelli,

Cicirelli,

D’Errico

et al. 2023

Social Sciences

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This paper explores the possibility of preventing prejudice among adolescents by promoting the analytical processing of social media content emerging from racial misinformation. Specifically, we propose, at this aim, an intervention that centers on recognizing stereotypical beliefs and other media biases about a group of people in misleading news. To better understand the variables that contribute to improving socio-analytical performance in the face of such misinformation, we investigated the influence of implicit associations as a tendency toward the automatic labeling of groups, as well as two dimensions of perceived self-efficacy in the face of misinformation, one active and one inhibitory. Our results demonstrate the presence of a negative link between affective prejudice and socio-analytical processing, and that this analytical performance toward misleading news is negatively related to the individual tendency toward implicit activation, and is also explained by the inhibitory factor of the perceived efficacy toward misinformation. The role of the active factor related to the perceived ability of fact-checking is not significant. This research suggests that education focused on the socio-analytical processing of misleading news in social media feeds can be an effective means of intervening in online affective prejudice among adolescents; the implications and limitations of our findings for future research in this area are discussed.

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Section: Dual Information Processing Toward Socio-analytical Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preventing Prejudice Emerging from Misleading News among Adolescents: The Role of Implicit Activation and Regulatory Self-Efficacy in Dealing with Online Misinformation

Corbelli,

Cicirelli,

D’Errico

et al. 2023

Social Sciences

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“…In many societies, it is widely considered unacceptable to hold prejudicial attitudes (Dovidio et al, 2019)—a social norm which has been largely established through the creation and enforcement of laws for equal treatment, the mass media (Paluck, 2009; Ramasubramanian, 2015), and educational efforts aimed at promoting tolerance and appreciating diversity (Bigler, 1999; Gabrielli et al, 2022). These norms have been found to be intricately linked to one's own prejudicial attitudes.…”

Section: Children's Awareness Of Anti‐prejudice Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children's judgments on the acceptability of prejudice

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By middle childhood, children become aware that discriminatory behavior is unacceptable; however, the development of their anti‐prejudice sentiments is largely unknown. Across two studies, 333 Australian 5‐ to 10‐year‐olds (51% female, majority White) were asked how acceptable they thought it was to have prejudicial sentiments toward 25 different targets. Children responded privately through a novel digital paradigm designed to minimize social‐desirability biases. With age, children were more likely to display anti‐prejudice sentiments toward targets who are prosocial, vulnerable, and of minority race and linguistic backgrounds. In contrast, they judged prejudice as “okay” for targets who are antisocial and negatively regarded in society. These findings suggest that children's perceptions of prejudice become increasingly nuanced and adult‐like across the primary school years.

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“…Other schoolbased interventions focus on reducing prejudicial attitudes among students and teachers through media (e.g., film; Burk et al, 2018;Sanz-Barbero et al, 2022). Substantial evidence suggests that school-based anti-bullying and anti-prejudice interventions decrease school bullying and foster more positive feelings toward stigmatized youth including sexual minority and transgender youth (Burk et al, 2018), girls (Sanz-Barbero et al, 2022Spinner et al, 2021), youth of Color (Aboud et al, 2012;Grapin et al, 2019), and refugee and migrant youth (Gabrielli et al, 2022).…”

Section: Future Direction #3: Structural Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%