García-Arch Josué, Ventura-Gabarró Cèlia, Adamuz Pedro Lorente, Calvo Pep Gatell, Fuentemilla Lluís
Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2021 May 17;12:614816. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.614816. eCollection 2021.
The aim of the present research was to test whether involvement in a 14-days training program in the performing arts could reduce implicit biases. We asked healthy participants to complete an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to assess biased attitudes to physical illness in two separate sessions, before and after the training program. Two separate control groups matched by age, gender and educational level completed the two IAT sessions, separated by same number of days, without being involved in the training program. Results showed that participants who were involved in the training program reduced their implicit bias toward illness measured through IAT in the second session. This reduction in IAT measures was not observed in the control samples, despite the two IAT measures being matched in temporal delay with the experimental group. These findings suggest that an interventional program based on the performing arts could be effective in reducing levels of implicit biases among the general population.
本研究的目的是测试参与为期14天的表演艺术培训项目是否能减少内隐偏见。我们让健康参与者在培训项目前后的两个不同时间段完成一项内隐联想测验（IAT），以评估对身体疾病的偏见态度。两个由年龄、性别和教育水平匹配的独立对照组在相同天数间隔后完成了这两项IAT测试，但未参与培训项目。结果显示，参与培训项目的参与者在第二个时间段通过IAT测量出的对疾病的内隐偏见有所减少。尽管对照组的两项IAT测量在时间延迟上与实验组匹配，但在对照组样本中未观察到IAT测量的这种减少。这些发现表明，基于表演艺术的干预项目可能有效地降低普通人群中的内隐偏见水平。
