Stories or Facts? Testing the Emotional Mechanisms of Prejudice Reduction in Chile

• In Event: Security, Migration, and Democratic Resilience in Latin America

Brief Overview

A pre-registered three-arm survey experiment in Chile (N=1,600) tested whether a humanizing narrative or a factual correction video could reduce anti-migrant attitudes, increase empathy, and foster prosocial behavior toward Haitian migrants.

Author

• Catalina Vega Mendez, University of Notre Dame