A matter of design: priming context and person perception

Abstract: A matter of considerable debate is whether people spontaneously use categorical knowledge (i.e., stereotypes) to guide their interactions with others. Despite initial evidence for the unconditional automaticity of category activation, recent research has identified a range of factors that moderate this process. Extending this line of inquiry, the current investigation explored the extent to which contextual influences - specifically the order in which priming stimuli are presented to participants - may modulate person categorization. Using a standard semantic-priming paradigm to index category and stereotype activation, participants were presented with priming stimuli that were either intermixed or blocked by sex. The results revealed that: (i) category and stereotype activation are moderated by the order in which priming stimuli are presented; and (ii) priming effects decrease monotonically as a function of category repetition. The theoretical implications of these findings are co

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ; 45 (2009) 4 ; 1012-1015

Klassifikation
Psychologie

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2009
Urheber
Macrae, C. Neil
Cloutier, Jasmin

DOI
10.1016/j.jesp.2009.04.021
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-293068
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Macrae, C. Neil
  • Cloutier, Jasmin

Entstanden

  • 2009

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