Fostering Mutual Understanding Among Muslims and Non-Muslims Through Counterstereotypical Information: An Educational versus Metacognitive Approach

Moritz, Steffen; Lasfar, Itimad; Reininger, Klaus Michael; Ohls, Isgard

doi:10.1080/10508619.2018.1431759

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“…The particular mechanism of MCT (i.e., exposing counter-stereotypical contents in a familiarizing way) is one prerequisite to reduce negative feelings, disapproval, perceptions of threat, and stereotypes. These results are in line with previous work focusing on religious stereotypes (Moritz et al, 2018). This observation is not trivial as it refers to work extremely important to our societies' ongoing (political) polarization.…”

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“…A logical control-condition related to this specific kind of metacognitive training is to provide participants with the corrective information only (i.e., education condition). In a recent study, Moritz, Lasfar, Reininger, and Ohls (2018) transferred MCT from the clinical to the political and religious context. They observed in a subsample of Muslims that MCT improved tolerance and approval of religious outgroups (Christians, Jews, and Atheists) compared to an education control-condition.…”

Section: A Metacognitive Counter-stereotypical Approach To Reduce Ove...mentioning

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“…Our goal was to transfer the clinical intervention-strategy of MCT from the clinical (e.g., Moritz et al, 2014) and the religious sphere (Moritz et al, 2018) to the political, polarized area of intergroup contacts between liberals and conservatives. By doing so, we aimed to ameliorate negative evaluations, feelings, and stereotypes towards conservatives in liberal research participants.…”

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“…In this preliminary study, we aimed to transfer the clinical intervention strategy of MCT to the political psychological context, as did Moritz, Lasfar, Reininger, and Ohls (2018). However, we go beyond the study by Moritz et al (2018) in two important ways. On the one hand, we not only include an education control-condition, but also a further no-treatment control-condition.…”

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Targeting our blind spot: A metacognitive intervention ameliorates negative feelings, evaluations, and stereotypes towards conservatives in a liberal sample

Reininger

Krott²,

Hoenisch

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J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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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.

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Section: A Metacognitive Counter-stereotypical Approach To Reduce Ove...mentioning

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Targeting our blind spot: A metacognitive intervention ameliorates negative feelings, evaluations, and stereotypes towards conservatives in a liberal sample

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“…Die Hypothese, dass Affektualisierung (ein wichtiger Bestandteil von affektiver Mentalisierung) eine wirksame und theoretisch begründete psychotherapeutische Intervention zu sein scheint, lässt sich aus der Literatur ableiten (Lammers 2011;Shedler 2010). Die Erfassung von affektiven Mentalisierungsschwierigkeiten durch den EBQ kommt insbesondere in Anbetracht evidenzbasierter Behandlungsformen mit Fokus auf einer Förderung ebendieser Fähigkeit, wie etwa der Mentalisierungsbasierten Therapie oder auch metakognitiven Ansätze (Bateman und Fonagy 2016; Moritz et al 2018Moritz et al , 2021Reininger et al 2020;Taubner et al 2019;Volkert et al 2019), eine hohe klinische Relevanz zu.…”

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Affektive Mentalisierung als wahrgenommene Kontrollierbarkeit und Nützlichkeit von Emotionen

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Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Instrumente zur Untersuchung von Mentalisierung sollten die Multidimensionalität dieses Konstrukts berücksichtigen und spezifizieren. Indikativ für den Pol der affektiven Mentalisierung sind einerseits aufgrund des Verständnisses für eigene und fremde Emotionen eine wahrgenommene Kontrollierbarkeit von Emotionen, andererseits aufgrund der attribuierten Bedeutsamkeit eigener und fremder Emotionen eine wahrgenommene Nützlichkeit von Emotionen. Die wahrgenommene Kontrollierbarkeit und Nützlichkeit positiver und negativer Emotionen wird mit den 16 Items des englischsprachigen Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire (EBQ; Becerra et al. 2020) im Selbstbericht erfasst. Ziel der Studie Ziele der vorliegenden Studie waren es, eine deutschsprachige Version des EBQ als Erhebungsinstrument für affektive Mentalisierungsfähigkeit zu entwickeln sowie deren Reliabilität und Validität zu ermitteln. Material und Methoden Psychotherapeut:innen in Aus- und Weiterbildung sowie Studierende (n = 104) beantworteten den von uns in Anlehnung an die Translation Guidelines des European Social Survey übersetzten deutschsprachigen EBQ als Teil einer anonymen Online-Befragung. Wir führten eine explorative Faktorenanalyse durch und bestimmten interne Konsistenzen sowie konkurrente Validitäten in Bezug auf verwandte Konstrukte. Ergebnisse Wie in der Originalvalidierungsstudie zeigen sich eine dreifaktorielle Struktur des EBQ sowie eine gute interne Konsistenz von α = 0,87 in der Gesamtskala. Weiterhin zeigen sich Zusammenhänge zwischen der Wahrnehmung von positiven und negativen Emotionen als unkontrollierbar und nutzlos (hohe EBQ-Werte) und einer geringeren Emotionsregulation sowie höheren psychopathologischen Symptomen (konkurrente Validität). Schlussfolgerung Die Befunde decken sich mit den Ergebnissen der originalen Validierungsstudie und legen nahe, dass der EBQ auch in der deutschen Version zu empfehlen ist. Theoretisch begründet und empirisch überprüft (siehe Online-Appendix) erscheint der EBQ als ein geeignetes Verfahren zur Erhebung affektiver Mentalisierung.

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A Pilot Study of Metacognitive Training in U.S. Republican Leaners: Reducing Polarization Toward LGBTIQ+ Persons

Reininger,

Koulen,

Biel

et al. 2024

Arch Sex Behav

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Negative attitudes and stigmatization toward sexual minorities is a cause of minority stress of non-heterosexual persons on an individual level and has a negative impact on democratic coexistence in postmodern, plural society on a societal level. Derived from clinical research, we developed a short metacognitive training (MCT) intended to induce doubt toward inaccurate beliefs about LGBTIQ+ persons. We expected this MCT to reduce homonegativity, threat perceptions of LGBTIQ+ persons, and to foster extended outgroup tolerance compared to an education and a no-treatment control condition. We tested this hypothesis in U.S. Republican leaners who represent a social group that is likely to hold homonegative attitudes. We randomly assigned 490 U.S. Republican leaners to an MCT condition comprising 16 questions and respective answers (n = 166) vs. an education control condition (n = 164) vs. a no-treatment control condition (n = 160). We found that Republican leaners after receiving MCT (1) had a significant reduction of homonegativity (ds ≥ 0.28), (2) significantly perceived LGBTIQ+ persons as less threatening (ds ≥ 0.30), and (3) were significantly more tolerant of various outgroups such as LGBTIQ+ persons, feminists, liberals, and climate activists (ds ≥ 0.23) relative to both control conditions. The small effects of this short intervention and the possibility of systematically applying MCT in social discourse to reduce homonegativity with its potential significance for LGBTIQ+ individuals’ mental health are discussed. Furthermore, we highlight this pilot study’s significance toward intervention possibilities regarding political division and polarization in postmodern, democratic societies.

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Fostering Mutual Understanding Among Muslims and Non-Muslims Through Counterstereotypical Information: An Educational versus Metacognitive Approach

Cited by 11 publications

References 48 publications

Targeting our blind spot: A metacognitive intervention ameliorates negative feelings, evaluations, and stereotypes towards conservatives in a liberal sample

Targeting our blind spot: A metacognitive intervention ameliorates negative feelings, evaluations, and stereotypes towards conservatives in a liberal sample

Affektive Mentalisierung als wahrgenommene Kontrollierbarkeit und Nützlichkeit von Emotionen

A Pilot Study of Metacognitive Training in U.S. Republican Leaners: Reducing Polarization Toward LGBTIQ+ Persons

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