Trainee teachers really can be change agents

Laxton, Debra

doi:10.12968/eyed.2017.19.8.18

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“…Sam also voiced words of encouragement to other HIV sufferers and debunked several misconceptions about HIV. The story was adapted from online videos made by an American man with HIV (Laxton, 2011, 2017) and from true stories about HIV sufferers posted on a website that supports people with that condition (AFA, 2017). To simulate positive contact in our study, the narrative outgroup character was portrayed in a positive light.…”

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Meeting of minds: Narratives as a tool to reduce prejudice toward stigmatized group members

Kim

Lim

2021

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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This study investigates a mechanism of mediated intergroup contact effects that occurs through experiencing social presence of a stigmatized outgroup character. Conceiving narrative texts as a context for mediated intergroup contact, we experimentally test ( N = 505) the effects of narrative perspective (first vs. third person) and the photograph of the outgroup protagonist (present vs. absent) on perceived social presence of the outgroup character. We further test whether experiencing the outgroup protagonist as socially present affects intergroup outcomes (i.e., perspective-taking, intergroup anxiety, outgroup knowledge, and outgroup attitudes). Findings indicate that first-person narratives are more effective than third-person narratives in inducing social presence of the stigmatized outgroup character; photos, unexpectedly, did not have such an effect. Social presence, in turn, plays a key role in facilitating positive intergroup outcomes from reading online narrative texts. The implications of our findings are discussed.

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confidence: 99%