I know that I know nothing: Can puncturing the illusion of explanatory depth overcome the relationship between attitudinal dissimilarity and prejudice?
Jan G. Voelkel; Mark J. Brandt; Matteo Colombo · 2018 · Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology
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Abstract
People are prejudiced toward groups they perceive as having a worldview dissimilar from their own. This link between perceived attitudinal dissimilarity and prejudice is so stable that it has been described as a psychological law. The current research tests whether reducing people’s (over-)confidence in their own understanding of policies by puncturing their illusion of explanatory depth in the political domain will reduce the link between perceived attitudinal dissimilarity and prejudice. In an initial pre-registered experiment (N = 296), we did not find support for our hypothesis, but explor
Abstract by Jan G. Voelkel; Mark J. Brandt; Matteo Colombo, Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology (2018) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1080/23743603.2018.1464881