Various studies have found that reading books about positive interactions between ingroup and outgroup characters, known as media vicarious contact, can reduce prejudice. Focusing on the fantasy saga of The Hunger Games, we examined the effects of negative vicarious contact on collective action across two studies. Specifically, we tested whether reading about fantasy characters living in a postapocalyptic conflictual society with large social disparities between advantaged and disadvantaged groups leads advantaged group members to display greater willingness to engage in collective action on behalf of the disadvantaged group. Results from Study 1 (correlational survey in the United Kingdom and United States) and Study 2 (experimental intervention in Italy) revealed that reading The Hunger Games is indirectly associated with greater collective action intentions via increased anger toward injustice. In both studies social dominance orientation (SDO) acted as a moderator, but in opposite directions: mediation was significant for low‐SDOs in Study 1, and for high‐SDOs in Study 2. Results are discussed in relation to the importance of media vicarious contact via book reading for social change, and to the need to identify the contextual conditions allowing to anticipate the specific moderation pattern that is more likely to emerge.

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愿一切都对您有利：饥饿游戏和为建立更平等社会而进行的斗争。（负面）媒体替代接触和集体行动

各种研究发现，阅读有关内外角色之间的积极互动的书籍（称为媒体替代接触）可以减少偏见。着眼于《饥饿游戏》的幻想传奇，我们在两项研究中考察了负面替代性接触对集体行动的影响。具体来说，我们测试了阅读生活在后世界冲突社会中处于优势和劣势群体之间社会差异巨大的幻想人物是否导致优势群体成员表现出更大的代表弱势群体参与集体行动的意愿。研究1（在英国和美国进行的相关调查）和研究2（在意大利进行的实验干预）的结果表明，通过增加对不公正的愤怒，阅读饥饿游戏与更大的集体行动意图间接相关。在这两项研究中，社会主导取向（SDO）都起到了调节作用，但方向相反：研究1中的低SDO和研究2中的高SDO的调解意义重大。通过阅读来实现社会变革，并需要确定相关的环境条件，以预测可能出现的特定节制模式。