Kraus Michael W, Vinluan A Chyei
Yale University, School of Management, New Haven, CT, USA.
Yale University, Department of Psychology, New Haven, CT, USA.
Commun Psychol. 2023 Nov 7;1(1):33. doi: 10.1038/s44271-023-00033-w.
Informational interventions can shape policy attitudes, and in this study, we examined whether largely unknown information about past reparations payments toward one minoritized group would shape current policy judgments. In 1942, the U.S. government wrongfully relocated and imprisoned more than 120,000 Japanese Americans. In 1988, the government apologized and offered $20,000 USD in reparations payments. Japanese American redress is a recent, but not widely known, concrete example of communities who have successfully fought for reparative economic action. In two preregistered studies of online crowdsourced panels of Asian Americans (N = 329, N = 500), an intervention that raised awareness of this history of incarceration and redress increased support for reparations for Black Americans, relative to a control condition, and national polling data on support for reparations. Exploratory analyses revealed that the degree of learning about Japanese American redress in the intervention explained its impact on support for Black reparations. Future research should target representative samples to understand how education about past redress within one's own social group affects support for reparative economic justice for others.
信息干预可以塑造政策态度，在本研究中，我们考察了关于过去对一个少数群体的赔偿支付的基本不为人知的信息是否会影响当前的政策判断。1942年，美国政府错误地重新安置并监禁了超过12万日裔美国人。1988年，政府道歉并提供了2万美元的赔偿。日裔美国人的赔偿是一个近期但并不广为人知的具体例子，说明了一些社区成功争取到赔偿性经济行动。在两项针对亚裔美国人在线众包小组的预注册研究中（N = 329，N = 500），与对照条件和关于赔偿支持的全国民意调查数据相比，一项提高对这段监禁和赔偿历史认识的干预措施增加了对非裔美国人赔偿的支持。探索性分析表明，干预措施中对日裔美国人赔偿的了解程度解释了其对支持黑人赔偿的影响。未来的研究应以代表性样本为目标，以了解关于自身社会群体过去赔偿的教育如何影响对他人赔偿性经济正义的支持。
