{
  "creator": [
    "Reininger, Klaus Michael",
    "Krott, Nora Rebekka",
    "Hoenisch, Margret",
    "Scheunemann, Jakob",
    "Moritz, Steffen"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2020-09-02"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Political polarization between conservatives and liberals threatens democratic societies. Ameliorating liberal research participants’ negative feelings, evaluations, and stereotypes towards conservatives might be one step into the direction of a political depolarization. In a sample of U.S.-American liberal research participants recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (N = 271), we randomly assigned participants in a pre-post-design either to a clinical-psychological, metacognitive-intervention (MCT), an educational, or a no-treatment-no-pre-measurement-control-condition. In the MCT-condition, participants were first asked seemingly simple questions that frequently elicited incorrect responses, followed by corrective information. In the educational condition, information was conveyed in a simple narrative form. MCT was significantly more effective in ameliorating liberal participants’ negative feelings, evaluations, and stereotypes towards conservatives compared to the other two control-conditions. Further, MCT-participants significantly reduced their negative feelings, negative evaluations, and perceptions of threat from pre- to post-measurement, significantly more than participants in the educational condition. The results of our preliminary study and its implications are discussed, and recommendations for further research are made."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf",
    "text/html",
    "text/xml"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5265",
    "10.5964/jspp.v8i2.1227"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5265/5265.pdf",
    "https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5265/5265.html",
    "https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5265/5265.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2020 Klaus Michael Reininger, Nora Rebekka Krott, Margret Hoenisch, Jakob Scheunemann, Steffen Moritz",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Journal of Social and Political Psychology; Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020); 453-472",
    "2195-3325"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "metacognitive training",
    "political polarization",
    "liberals",
    "conservatives",
    "stereotypes"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Targeting our Blind Spot: A Metacognitive Intervention Ameliorates Negative Feelings, Evaluations, and Stereotypes Towards Conservatives in a Liberal Sample"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion",
    "Peer-reviewed Article"
  ]
}