Reducing implicit racial preferences: II. Intervention effectiveness across time

Calvin K. Lai; Erin Cooley; Thierry Devos; Y. Jenny Xiao; Stefanie Simon; Jennifer A. Joy-Gaba; Gina Roussos; Fabian M.H. Schellhaas; Xiaoqing Hu; Jordan R. Axt; Kathleen Schmidt; Maddalena Marini; Jiyun Elizabeth L. Shin; Allison L. Skinner; Sohad Murrar; Markus Brauer; Jimmy Calanchini; Christina Pedram; Christopher K. Marshburn; John C. Blanchar; John Conway; Liz Redford; Rick A. Klein; Mason Burns; Meghan C. McLean; Shaki Asgari; Rachel Rubinstein; Sandro Rubichi; Brian A. Nosek

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Reducing implicit racial preferences: II. Intervention effectiveness across time

Calvin K. Lai, Erin Cooley, Thierry Devos, Y. Jenny Xiao, Stefanie Simon, Jennifer A. Joy-Gaba, Gina Roussos, Fabian M.H. Schellhaas, Xiaoqing Hu, Jordan R. Axt, Kathleen Schmidt, Maddalena Marini, Jiyun Elizabeth L. Shin, Allison L. Skinner, Sohad Murrar, Markus Brauer, Jimmy Calanchini, Christina Pedram, Christopher K. Marshburn, John C. BlancharJohn Conway, Liz Redford, Rick A. Klein, Mason Burns, Meghan C. McLean, Shaki Asgari, Rachel Rubinstein, Sandro Rubichi, Brian A. Nosek

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Abstract

Implicit preferences are malleable, but does that change last? We tested 9 interventions (8 real and 1 sham) to reduce implicit racial preferences over time. In 2 studies with a total of 6,321 participants, all 9 interventions immediately reduced implicit preferences. However, none were effective after a delay of several hours to several days. We also found that these interventions did not change explicit racial preferences and were not reliably moderated by motivations to respond without prejudice. Short-term malleability in implicit preferences does not necessarily lead to long-term change, raising new questions about the flexibility and stability of implicit preferences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1001-1016
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Volume	145
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000179
State	Published - Aug 1 2016

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Keywords

Attitudes
Implicit association test
Implicit social cognition
Malleability
Racial prejudice

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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
General Psychology
Developmental Neuroscience

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Lai, C. K., Cooley, E., Devos, T., Xiao, Y. J., Simon, S., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Roussos, G., Schellhaas, F. M. H., Hu, X., Axt, J. R., Schmidt, K., Marini, M., Shin, J. E. L., Skinner, A. L., Murrar, S., Brauer, M., Calanchini, J., Pedram, C., Marshburn, C. K., ... Nosek, B. A. (2016). Reducing implicit racial preferences: II. Intervention effectiveness across time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(8), 1001-1016. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000179

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