Replication Data for: Racialized Misinformation, Factual Corrections, and Prejudicial Attitudes: The Cases of Welfare and Immigration

Misunderstandings about marginalized social groups are widespread among the American public and can play an important role in shaping outgroup prejudice. Does correcting racialized misperceptions about marginalized groups mitigate prejudicial attitudes? To test the impact of factual corrections, we conduct three preregistered survey experiments in the US (N = 8,306). Study 1 and Study 2 draw on the case of welfare and inform respondents that the share of Black welfare recipients is lower than that of White recipients. Study 3 focuses on the case of immigration and informs respondents that immigrants' crime rate is lower than natives' crime rate. Across three well-powered experiments, we estimate null to minuscule effects of factual corrections on multiple measures of prejudice---although our informational interventions significantly reduced misperceptions about Blacks and immigrants. These findings illuminate the scope conditions of factual corrections' efficacy in improving citizens' attitudes toward minority groups and have implications for scholarship on belief-attitude relationships.

美国公众对边缘社会群体的误解普遍存在，且此类误解在塑造外群体偏见的过程中发挥着重要作用。纠正针对边缘群体的种族化误解，能否有效缓解偏见态度？为验证事实纠正的干预效果，我们在美国开展了三项预先注册的调查实验，总样本量为N=8306。研究1与研究2以福利议题为研究场景，向受访者告知：领取福利的黑人占比低于白人占比；研究3则聚焦移民议题，向受访者告知移民的犯罪率低于本土居民。在三项统计效力充足的实验中，我们发现事实纠正对多项偏见测量指标的影响仅为零或极小水平——尽管我们的信息干预显著降低了受访者对黑人群体与移民群体的误解。本研究结果阐明了事实纠正在改善公民对少数群体态度方面的有效适用边界，并对信念与态度关系领域的学术研究具有重要启示。