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- Title
Examining Prejudice towards Middle Eastern Persons via a Transformation of Stimulus Functions.
- Authors
Dixon, Mark R.; Branon, Angela; Nastally, Becky L.; Mui, Nicholas
- Abstract
The present paper describes 3 experiments which sought to further investigate if arbitrary stimuli may enter into relations with terrorist and non-terrorist stimuli via a transformation of stimulus functions. Experiment 1 used a rating scale to measure perceptions of North American and Middle Eastern males appearing as "Terrorists" before and after various relational training and testing procedures. Experiment 2 incorporated stimuli classification and sorting procedures to measure perceptions of the same images before replicating training and testing procedures from Experiment 1. Experiment 3 replicated the measurement procedures of Experiment 2 however, participants rated arbitrary stimuli. Results of these studies contribute to a Relational Frame Theory account of prejudice by demonstrating a pre-existing relationship between participant opinions and images of North American and Middle Eastern males and that these relationships can be altered through a conditional discrimination procedure.
- Subjects
BEHAVIORAL assessment; TERRORISM &; psychology; TERRORISTS -- Psychology; MIDDLE Eastern Americans; NORTH Americans; PSYCHOLOGY of men
- Publication
Behavior Analyst Today, 2009, Vol 10, Issue 2, p295
- ISSN
1539-4352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/h0100672