From passerby to ally: Testing an intervention to challenge attributions for poverty and generate support for poverty-reducing policies and allyship

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Despite the ubiquity of poverty, its causes remain largely misunderstood and many attribute poverty to individual shortcomings. This stigma not only predicts negative physical and mental health outcomes for those living in poverty, it also psychologically distances them from the economically advantaged. Thus, solutions to the problem of poverty should include efforts to reduce stigma among the economically advantaged, who are often crucial decision-makers with the power and resources to act as allies. The current research utilized an intensive and immersive intervention designed to challenge the attributions that underpin poverty stigma. In two studies, we tested the effectiveness of this intervention. Results of both studies demonstrate that participation in the intervention consistently predicted more favorable attributions for poverty, and that these changes in attributions, in turn, had meaningful positive effects on participants’ support for poverty-reducing policies and willingness to engage in poverty-related allyship.

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Waddell, M. W., Wright, S. C., Mendel, J., Dys-Steenbergen, O., & Bahrami, M. (2023). From passerby to ally: Testing an intervention to challenge attributions for poverty and generate support for poverty-reducing policies and allyship. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 23(2), 334–362. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12348

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