Can high quality listening predict lower speakers' prejudiced attitudes?

ABSTRACT: Theorizing from humanistic and motivational literatures suggests attitude change may occur because high quality listening facilitates the insight needed to explore and integrate potentially threatening information relevant to the self. By extension, self-insight may enable attitude change as a result of conversations about prejudice. We tested whether high quality listening would predict attitudes related to speakers' prejudices and whether self-insight would mediate this effect. Study 1 (preregistered) examined scripted conversations characterized by high, regular, and poor listening quality. In Study 2, we manipulated high versus regular listening quality in the laboratory as speakers talked about their prejudiced attitudes. Finally, Study 3 (preregistered) used a more robust measure of

SUBMITTER: Itzchakov G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7409873 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature