ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Historical Attitudes Towards Stigma: A Case Study Using Word Embeddings
- Nishanth Sanjeev
Implicit Social Cognition Lab, Harvard University - Tessa Charlesworth
Harvard University - Mahzarin Banaji
Harvard University
Abstract
Bringing advances in word embeddings applied to archival text, this projects offers a methodological tutorial and original psychological case study to understand historical attitude change. Using 200 years of text (1800-1990), we newly demonstrate that attitudes towards 62 socially-stigmatized identities are strongly negative and have remained remarkably persistent across time.
Implicit Bias
