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SUMMARY:amse seminar - Jenn Larson
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DESCRIPTION:Interventions aimed at changing attitudes are often focused on 
 individual responses. However\, attitudes do not shift in isolation\; indi
 viduals are embedded in rich social networks that can reinforce\, push agai
 nst\, or emulate changes. We conducted a field experiment in 16 villages in
  northwestern Uganda which randomly assigns a perspective-taking treatment 
 aimed at reducing prejudice towards refugees to 40% of the households in ea
 ch village. Our design includes a measure of full household social network
 s as well as measures of individual attitudes at baseline\, immediately aft
 er treatment\, and at endline after a two week interim in which people were
  free to discuss the issue with others in their village. We find that the t
 reatment does warm attitudes of the treated on average in the short-term\, 
 though with considerable variance. We also find that people’s attitudes c
 hange in the longer-term based on informal conversations with others in the
  network after treatment. By the endline\, the control attitudes warm on av
 erage too\, consistent with classical spillovers. Inconsistent with classic
 al spillovers\, the treated attitudes warm even further\, and the ultimate 
 attitudes of the control are a function of not just the presence of treated
  network neighbors but these neighbors’ individual reactions to the treat
 ment. We argue that the results are consistent with a period of “social p
 rocessing” in which revealed reactions ultimately shape the attitudes of 
 both the treated and the control. We stipulate a simple model of such a pro
 cess and show that it can generate non-classical spillovers like those we o
 bserve. Taken together\, these findings show the importance of understandin
 g the social process that can reinforce or unravel individual-level attitud
 e change\; it appears essential to designing interventions with a lasting e
 ffect on attitudes. \\n\\nContact: Nicolas Clootens: nicolas.clootens[at]u
 niv-amu.frRomain Ferrali: romain.ferrali[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'informati
 ons: https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/events/jenn-larson-0
LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevar
 d Maurice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/events/jenn-larson-0
CONTACT:Nicolas Clootens: nicolas.clootens[at]univ-amu.frRomain Ferrali: ro
 main.ferrali[at]univ-amu.fr
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