How the interplay of imagined contact and first-person narratives improves attitudes toward stigmatized immigrants : a conditional process model

• Main Authors: Igartua, Juan‐José, Wojcieszak, Magdalena, Kim, Nuri
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Narrative Persuasion; Identification with the Character
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146325
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article assesses the mechanisms whereby first-person narratives featuring stigmatized immigrants improve outgroup attitudes and encourage intergroup contact among prejudiced individuals. We rely on a 2 (imagined contact vs. control) × 2 (similar vs. dissimilar message protagonist) experiment on...