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Male business students (N = 296) participated in three role-playing experiments. Experi- ment 2 demonstrated that cognitive change can result from role playing under conditions where the supervisor who is giving the assignment to a subordinate actually believes in the goals of the program (p <.05). Experiment 3 indicated a behavioral change. Participants had a sig- nificantly (p <.05) higher tendency than controls to evaluate a female job applicant as acceptable for employment in a supervisory position.
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Schuh, A.J., Young, YP. Indicators of attitude shift from role playing. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 11, 283–284 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336831
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