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Changing cultural attitudes towards female genital cutting

Vogt, Sonja, Mohmmed Zaid, Nadia Ahmed, El Fadil Ahmed, Hilal, Fehr, Ernst, Efferson, Charles·2016·Nature
DOI 10.1038/nature20100
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As globalization brings people with incompatible attitudes into contact, cultural conflicts inevitably arise. Little is known about how to mitigate conflict and about how the conflicts that occur can shape the cultural evolution of the groups involved. Female genital cutting is a prominent example. Governments and international agencies have promoted the abandonment of cutting for decades, but the practice remains widespread with associated health risks for millions of girls and women. In their efforts to end cutting, international agents have often adopted the view that cutting is locally pervasive and entrenched. This implies the need to introduce values and expectations from outside the local culture. Members of the target society may view such interventions as unwelcome intrusions, and campaigns promoting abandonment have sometimes led to backlash as they struggle to reconcile cultural tolerance with the conviction that cutting violates universal human rights. Cutting, however, is not necessarily locally pervasive and entrenched. We designed experiments on cultural change that exploited the existence of conflicting attitudes within cutting societies. We produced four entertaining movies that served as experimental treatments in two experiments in Sudan, and we developed an implicit association test to unobtrusively measure attitudes about cutting. The movies depart from the view that cutting is locally pervasive by dramatizing members of an extended family as they confron…

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  • In Vogt et al. (2016), movies significantly improved viewers' implicit attitudes toward uncut girls compared with a control movie.

    “The movies significantly improved viewers’ implicit attitudes toward uncut girls compared with a control movie (which had no discussion of cutting).”

    From Stories in Action. (2022) · cites this paper as Vogt et al., 2016

  • The movie that combined both subplots had relatively persistent effects.

    “And the movie that combined both subplots had relatively persistent effects.”

    From Stories in Action. (2022) · cites this paper as Vogt et al., 2016

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Authors
Vogt, S., Mohmmed Zaid, N. A., El Fadil Ahmed, H., Fehr, E., & Efferson, C.
Affiliations
University of Zurich (CH)
Corresponding author
Vogt, Sonja
ORCID
Venue
Nature
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-10
Volume
538
Issue
7626
Pages
506-509
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
DOI
10.1038/nature20100
OpenAlex
W2531707983
Cited by
97
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 1
FWCI
9.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • BORIS (University Library Bern) (submittedVersion)
  • IRIS (submittedVersion)
  • SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
Funders
UNICEF
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Media Influence and Health
Keywords
female genital mutilation, cultural change, implicit attitudes, Implicit Association Test, marriageability, cultural evolution, Sudan, intercultural conflict
MeSH terms
Cultural Characteristics, Cultural Evolution, Female, Humans, Human Rights, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Marriage, Motion Pictures, Social Change, Sudan, Women's Health, Circumcision, Female

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