Reducing Islamophobia: An assessment of psychological mechanisms that underlie anti-Islamophobia media interventions

Moore‐Berg, Samantha L.; Hameiri, Boaz; Bruneau, Emile

doi:10.1177/13684302221085832

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“…This highlights the need to rigorously test the effectiveness of interventions rather than rely solely on the intuition of researchers, laypeople, and the people who create these interventions and materials. Many of the curated interventions Bruneau and colleagues used in their research (see also Gallardo et al, 2022; Moore-Berg, Hameiri, Falk, & Bruneau, 2022) were developed by practitioners to promote their goal to reduce Islamophobia in the United States but were never experimentally tested. The results of these curated intervention tournaments highlight the importance of conducting this rigorous testing.…”

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“…In addition to ruling out Type I and II errors, replication studies add further benefit of teasing out the underlying mechanism or mechanisms of the successful interventions identified in the tournament, especially when considering the curated and in-house-developed intervention tournaments. In most cases, researchers and practitioners will have some sense of the potential psychological mechanisms at play before the intervention tournament, as in Bruneau et al (2018) and Moore-Berg, Hameiri, Falk, and Bruneau (2022; see also Calanchini et al, 2021). In other cases, researchers can tease apart a successful intervention after it is found to be successful to pinpoint the psychological mechanism from potential candidates.…”

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“…As a final consideration for intervention-tournament design, some tournaments include a longitudinal component (e.g., Bruneau et al, 2022; Lai et al, 2016; Moore-Berg, Hameiri, Falk, & Bruneau, 2022). Including a longitudinal component as part of intervention-tournament design has several benefits.…”

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“…In the next section, we describe three distinct types of intervention tournaments that are based on either crowdsourcing (e.g., Axelrod & Hamilton, 1981;Bennett & Lanning, 2007;Forscher et al, 2020;Lai et al, 2014Lai et al, , 2016Milkman et al, 2021;Uhlmann et al, 2019; see also WHO, 2020), curating (e.g., Bruneau et al, 2018;Moore-Berg, Hameiri, Falk, & Bruneau, 2022), or inhouse development of interventions (e.g., Bruneau et al, 2022;Van Assche et al, 2020; see also Efentakis & Politis, 2006).…”

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Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation

Hameiri

Moore‐Berg

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

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A large portion of research in the social sciences is devoted to using interventions to combat societal and social problems, such as prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup conflict. However, these interventions are often developed using the theories and/or intuitions of the individuals who developed them and evaluated in isolation without comparing their efficacy with other interventions. Here, we make the case for an experimental design that addresses such issues: an intervention tournament—that is, a study that compares several different interventions against a single control and uses the same standardized outcome measures during assessment and participants drawn from the same population. We begin by highlighting the utility of intervention tournaments as an approach that complements other, more commonly used approaches to addressing societal issues. We then describe various approaches to intervention tournaments, which include crowdsourced, curated, and in-house-developed intervention tournaments, and their unique characteristics. Finally, we discuss practical recommendations and key design insights for conducting such research, given the existing literature. These include considerations of intervention-tournament deployment, characteristics of included interventions, statistical analysis and reporting, study design, longitudinal and underlying psychological mechanism assessment, and theoretical ramifications.

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Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation

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2022

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“…Thus, we examined whether being exposed to information about positive actions conducted by Muslims would challenge participants’ perceptions that Muslims are a homogeneous group. Second, past research suggests that exposure to information that receives not much attention by the mainstream media will lead participants to perceive the media as more biased, which is associated with more favorable intergroup attitudes (Moore-Berg et al, 2021). Thus, we examined the role of perceived media bias as a potential mediator.…”

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The collective praise intervention: A brief intervention highlighting prosocial behavior reduces hostility towards Muslims

Gallardo

Hameiri

Moore‐Berg

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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Muslims are consistently the target of dehumanization and hostile policies. Previous research shows that interventions that highlight the hypocrisy wherein people collectively blame entire groups for the heinous acts of individual members of outgroups but not ingroups are effective in reducing animosity towards Muslims. However, these interventions rely on aversive materials (e.g., terrorist acts), which can hinder the scalability of interventions due to individuals’ tendency to resist/avoid challenging and aversive stimuli. In three preregistered studies (combined N = 2,635), we developed and tested a nonaversive, hypocrisy-based intervention that highlights the hypocrisy involved in attributing ingroup members’ prosocial acts to the entire ingroup (i.e., Christians) but not doing the same for outgroup members (i.e., Muslims). Results indicated that this collective praise intervention reliably reduces dehumanization of Muslims, anti-Muslim policy support, and collective blame of Muslims. We argue that the intervention’s use of nonaversive stimuli allows for both practical and scalable applications.

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Translating social science for peace: Benefits, challenges, and recommendations.

Moore‐Berg¹,

Bernstein²,

Gallardo³

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Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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There is a growing push within the social sciences to conduct translational science that not only advances theory but also achieves real world impact. The goals of this paper are (a) to encourage scholars to engage in translational science by conducting research that responds to pressing social challenges, and (b) to provide concrete recommendations on how to incorporate such practices into their research programs. To do this, we bring together perspectives of academics and practitioners who have experience merging science with practice. We begin by defining what translational science is, describing the benefits of engaging in translational science for peace and conflict studies, and highlighting past research that has done this successfully. Next, we describe various aspects of conducting translational science, such as how researchers can partner with nonacademic stakeholders to create social impact and advance scientific theory, and how they can disseminate findings for public impact. We also address key challenges researchers might face when conducting translational research and provide practical tips that social scientists can use to effectively engage in what we coined the “Bruneauian” approach for how to address such challenges. Specifically, we focus on the skills needed for study design and deployment, how researchers can sensitively interact with vulnerable communities, statistical and methodological considerations, logistical challenges, and how to develop relationships with practitioners. Finally, we conclude with a practitioner’s perspective on how to foster these types of relationships.

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Reducing Islamophobia: An assessment of psychological mechanisms that underlie anti-Islamophobia media interventions

Cited by 10 publications

References 59 publications

Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation

Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation

The collective praise intervention: A brief intervention highlighting prosocial behavior reduces hostility towards Muslims

Translating social science for peace: Benefits, challenges, and recommendations.

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