dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Strick, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Tol, O. van | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-08T18:00:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-08T18:00:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/36113 | |
dc.description.abstract | Attitudes towards immigrants continually grow more negatively, while the number of
immigrants coming to Europe keeps growing. As traditional interventions proved to be
ineffective, the current study investigated the effectiveness of a Paradoxical Thinking
intervention compared to a traditional intervention on the problem of negative attitudes
towards immigrants. Paradoxical Thinking interventions expose individuals to extreme
information that is congruent with their attitude, but too extreme to agree with. This paradox
of not agreeing with information that is congruent with one’s attitude then leads to a re
evaluation of the current attitude. A traditional intervention instead uses information that is
incongruent with individuals’ attitudes in order to achieve attitude change. A total of 86
participants (members of the general public) were asked to give their opinion on immigrants
three times. In the first survey, this opinion was measured twice: once before exposure to
either a Paradoxical Thinking intervention or a traditional intervention, and once after. In the
second survey a week later, this opinion was asked again after exposure to the intervention.
The Paradoxical Thinking intervention did not result in a more positive attitude change than
the traditional intervention, and political orientation did not influence this. The importance
and limitations of the current research are discussed, and suggestions for further research are
provided. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 636193 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | The Effectiveness of a Paradoxical Thinking Intervention on Attitudes towards Immigrants and the Influence of Political Orientation | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | Paradoxical Thinking, attitude change, attitudes towards immigrants,
influence technique, freezin | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Social, Health and Organisational Psychology | |