Can Implicit Attitudes Toward Other Countries be Changed?

We aimed to determine whether or not implicit attitudes toward other countries can be changed by priming with friend/enemy identification manipulations. Participants comprised 60 Chinese adult men whose implicit attitudes toward India and South Korea were measured with the Implicit Association Test...

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Published in:Social behavior and personality 2016-03, Vol.44 (2), p.259-268
Main Authors: Gao, Xuchen, Lu, Zheng, Liang, Ningjian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude (Psychology)
Attitude Change
Attitude Toward Other Countries
Attitudes
Behavior
Diplomatic & consular services
Host country
Implicit Association Test
Implicit Attitudes
Implicit Partisanship
Implicit Social Cognition
Laboratories
Partisanship
Prejudices
Psychological research
Researchers
Studies
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Summary:We aimed to determine whether or not implicit attitudes toward other countries can be changed by priming with friend/enemy identification manipulations. Participants comprised 60 Chinese adult men whose implicit attitudes toward India and South Korea were measured with the Implicit Association Test (IAT). They were then randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups: pro-India, in which participants read a short article indicating that India was a friend and South Korea was an enemy, and pro-South Korea, in which the opposite primes were used. Participants then wrote a short paper to support the assigned identity, and completed the IAT a second time. Repeated measures analyses of variance of IAT effects revealed a significant interaction between test time and groups, showing that implicit attitudes had been significantly changed by the 2 identification primes.
ISSN:0301-2212
1179-6391
DOI:10.2224/sbp.2016.44.2.259