A video intervention reduces racial bias in a representative sample of US adults: A brain as predictor study.

ABSTRACT: Biased attitudes and behaviors towards racial minorities in the US are pervasive, enduring, and detrimental. We tested whether a video illustrating the negative effects of racial bias towards African-Americans would influence short-term and medium-term attitudes and behaviors towards this group. In Experiment 1, a high-impact video was identified by measuring neurologic Immersion in the laboratory (N = 62). Experiment 2 then recruited a representative sample of US adults (N = 1097) to assess the video's impact on attitudes and behaviors towards African-Americans relative to participants who watched a neutral control video. A two-week follow up study was also done to determine if effects of the treatment video persisted. At baseline, young participants, men, and Republicans, had the statist

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12919826 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature