A Spillover of Empathy: Online roleplaying with a local minority reduces anti-immigration attitudes

• In Event: Experimental Examinations of Identity

Brief Overview

We evaluate the spillover effect of an online role-playing game that targeted anti-Roma prejudice in Hungary. A survey fielded a year after the intervention finds evidence that treated subjects still report more tolerant attitudes towards refugees.

Author

• Gabor Simonovits, Central European University