Self-Affirmation and Prejudice Against Religious Groups: The Role of Ideological Malleabilityuse asterix (*) to get italics

Yara Alnajjar, Constantina Badea and Béatrice SternbergPlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"

2023

<p><em>[IMPORTANT: Abstract, method, and results were written in past tense, to simulate what these sections will look like after data collection, but no pre-registration or data collection took place yet.]</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Self-affirmation has shown mixed findings when used as a prejudice reduction technique, sometimes diminishing prejudice while sometimes increasing it or having no significant effect. In a Registered Report experiment with a French representative sample (N = XXX), we tested whether ideological malleability (participants’ representation of secularism) influences the effectiveness of the self-affirmation procedure in reducing prejudice against religious groups. After reporting their representation of secularism, participants were either asked to self-affirm on a threat-related value (secularism), or to self-affirm on a threat-unrelated value (humor), or were assigned to a control condition. Finally, affective and behavioral prejudice against religious groups (Muslims and Christians) were measured.&nbsp;</p> <p>In accordance with/contrary to previous research, secularism representation did/did not have a significant impact on prejudice, η2 = XXX, and prejudice did/did not depend on the targeted religious group, η2 = XXX. We found/failed to find empirical evidence showing that the effect of self-affirmation on prejudice depends on ideological malleability, η2 = XXX. All materials, data, and code are available on: OSF.</p>

self-affirmation, ideological malleability, prejudice, religious groups

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Shana Levin [slevin@cmc.edu] suggested: Chris Federico, federico@umn.edu, moin syed suggested: Linda Juang, juang@uni-potsdam.de , moin syed suggested: Maja Schachner, maja.schachner@paedagogik.uni-halle.de , moin syed suggested: Sauro Civitillo, s.civitillo@uu.nl , Donna C. Jessop [d.jessop@sussex.ac.uk] suggested: Professor Peter Harris , William Klein [kleinwm@mail.nih.gov] suggested: Peter Harris - University of Sussex , William Klein [kleinwm@mail.nih.gov] suggested: David Sherman - UCSB, Ozden Melis Ulug [o.m.ulug@sussex.ac.uk] suggested: Selin Tekin from Karabuk University

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