Antidiscrimination interventions, political ads on transgender rights, and public opinion: Results from two survey experiments on adults in the United States

Publication Year
2021

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

Political advertisements can shift attitudes and behaviors to become more exclusionary toward social out-groups. However, people who engage in an antidiscrimination exercise in the context of an experiment may respond differently to such ads. What interventions might foster inclusive attitudes in the presence of political communications about social policy issues like transgender rights? We examined two scalable antidiscrimination exercises commonly used in applied settings: describing a personal narrative of discrimination and perspective-taking. We then showed people political ads that are favorable or opposed to transgender rights to determine whether those interventions moderate how receptive people are to the messages. Relying on two demographically representative survey

Journal
Front. Psychol.
Volume
12
Date Published
08/2021
Type of Prejudice/Bias
Country
Setting