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“Participants went to the laboratory two times, separated by 15.18 days (SD = 2.84). The first time, participants took part in an unrelated experiment. At the end of that experiment, the participants were asked to complete another brief experiment with the control or imagined contact intervention. The experimenter was blind to the condition and hypothesis. When the participants came to the laboratory the second time, they completed the dependent measures. The second experimenter was also blind to the condition.”

“Participants were randomly allocated to the control condition (n = 75) or the imagined contact condition (n = 76).”

“In the two conditions, participants first read the following [Text A…]”

“[...] participants in the imagined contact condition read the following [Text B…]”

“Participants wrote on a sheet of paper what they imagined for each scenario.”

“Approximately 15 days later, the participants returned to the laboratory to complete three measures used to assess prejudiced attitudes towards persons with schizophrenia.”

“The first measure was an Implicit Association Test [...]”

“The second measure was a 14-item scale of intergroup anxiety [...]”

“Explicit attitudes towards schizophrenia were measured with six questions [...]”