Vicarious Contact with Gay Men: The Role of Ingroup Perspective-Taking and Outgroup Empathy for Outgroup Attitudes.

Two pre-registered well-powered experiments (total N = 604) showed that a YouTube-video using vicarious contact improved explicit and implicit attitudes towards gay men. Increased perspective-taking with the ingroup protagonists mediated increased empathy with the gay outgroup protagonists, and both showed a serial indirect effect on improved outgroup attitudes.