Experimenter denunciation proves attitude shifts were genuine, not performative

Evidence

I think we can lay to rest the suspicion that the students did not really change their attitudes in all these studies, but merely pretended to, to please the Experimenter. For subjects here were still affected by an article that the Experimenter condemned—not as much as when the Experimenter insisted he be considered neutral, of course, but almost as much. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3256

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Attitude changes in experiments are genuine, not mere compliance (similarity 0.92)
• Feminist attitude changes were measured against randomized control and experimental groups (similarity 0.81)
• Denouncing biased material does not neutralize its persuasive effect (similarity 0.79)
• Attitude change can be tested with pre-post experimental designs. (similarity 0.78)
• Authoritarians would rather remain prejudiced than confront their own bias. (similarity 0.78)