@article{ref1,
title="Interventions highlighting hypocrisy reduce collective blame of Muslims for individual acts of violence and assuage anti-Muslim hostility",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2018",
author="Bruneau, Emile and Kteily, Nour and Falk, Emily",
volume="44",
number="3",
pages="430-448",
abstract="Collectively blaming groups for the actions of individuals can license vicarious retribution. Acts of terrorism by Muslim extremists against innocents, and the spikes in anti-Muslim hate crimes against innocent Muslims that follow, suggest that reciprocal bouts of collective blame can spark cycles of violence. How can this cycle be short-circuited? After establishing a link between collective blame of Muslims and anti-Muslim attitudes and behavior, we used an &quot;interventions tournament&quot; to identify a successful intervention (among many that failed). The &quot;winning&quot; intervention reduced collective blame of Muslims by highlighting hypocrisy in the ways individuals collectively blame Muslims-but not other groups (White Americans, Christians)-for individual group members' actions. After replicating the effect in an independent sample, we demonstrate that a novel interactive activity that isolates the psychological mechanism amplifies the effectiveness of the collective blame hypocrisy intervention and results in downstream reductions in anti-Muslim attitudes and anti-Muslim behavior.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/0146167217744197",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167217744197"
}