Automatic stereotyping: Category, trait, and behavioral activations
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On the basis of theorizing that proposes that category representations include a variety of associations and not simply trait information, two studies investigated whether the automatic activation of stereotypic trails following category priming is a necessary mediator of automatic social behavior. The results across both studies demonstrated an automatic behavior effect; participants primed with the elderly responded more slowly to general lexical decisions than participants not primed with the elderly. The results also provide evidence for automatic stereotypic trait activation; participants primed with the elderly responded faster to stereotypic than nonstereotypic traits. Moreover, consistent with the view that stereotypes are multicomponential, category priming predicted automatic social behavior in ways independent of mediation-by-trait activation. © 2002 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
TNO Identifier
280330
ISSN
01461672
Source
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(1), pp. 3-15.
Pages
3-15
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