Estudillo Alejandro J, Bindemann Markus
School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
Conscious Cogn. 2016 May;42:325-339. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.04.006. Epub 2016 Apr 26.
This study investigated whether multisensory stimulation with other-race faces can reduce racial prejudice. In three experiments, the faces of Caucasian observers were stroked with a cotton bud while they watched a black face being stroked in synchrony on a computer screen. This was compared with a neutral condition, in which no tactile stimulation was administered (Experiment 1 and 2), and with a condition in which observers' faces were stroked in asynchrony with the onscreen face (Experiment 3). In all experiments, observers experienced an enfacement illusion after synchronous stimulation, whereby they reported to embody the other-race face. However, this effect did not produce concurrent changes in implicit or explicit racial prejudice. This outcome contrasts with other procedures for the reduction of self-other differences that decrease racial prejudice, such as behavioural mimicry and intergroup contact. We speculate that enfacement is less effective for such prejudice reduction because it does not encourage perspective-taking.
本研究调查了对其他种族面孔的多感官刺激是否能够减少种族偏见。在三项实验中，当白人观察者看着电脑屏幕上一张黑人面孔被同步轻抚时，用棉签轻抚他们的脸。将其与未给予触觉刺激的中性条件（实验1和2）以及观察者的脸与屏幕上的脸异步轻抚的条件（实验3）进行比较。在所有实验中，同步刺激后观察者都经历了一种面部融合错觉，即他们报告说自己呈现出了其他种族的面孔。然而，这种效应并没有同时改变内隐或外显的种族偏见。这一结果与其他减少自我与他人差异从而减少种族偏见的程序形成对比，比如行为模仿和群体间接触。我们推测，面部融合在减少此类偏见方面效果较差，因为它不鼓励换位思考。
