APS

2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024

Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Spacing out New Information Helps Change Minds about People

San Francisco, CA · May 2024

Poster · Social

  • Emily Ritchie
    Yale University
  • Melissa Ferguson
    Yale University

Abstract

Can harmful attitudes be changed more easily with intervention over time than in one fell swoop? In a week-long experiment, counterattitudinal information more effectively changed impressions of a stigmatized individual when spaced over several days than when consumed in one sitting. Results may inform the design of bias interventions.

Implicit Bias

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