TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining Automatic Stereotyping From a Propositional Perspective
T2 - Is Automatic Stereotyping Sensitive to Relational and Validity Information?
AU - Moran, Tal
AU - Cummins, Jamie
AU - De Houwer, Jan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
PY - 2022/7/1
Y1 - 2022/7/1
N2 - Research on automatic stereotyping is dominated by the idea that automatic stereotyping reflects the activation of (group–trait) associations. In two preregistered experiments (total N = 391), we tested predictions derived from an alternative perspective that suggests that automatic stereotyping is the result of the activation of propositional representations that, unlike associations, can encode relational information and have truth values. Experiment 1 found that automatic stereotyping is sensitive to the validity of information about pairs of traits and groups. Experiment 2 showed that automatic stereotyping is sensitive to the specific relations (e.g., whether a particular group is more or less friendly than a reference person) between pairs of traits and groups. Interestingly, both experiments found a weaker influence of validity/relational information on automatic stereotyping than on non-automatic stereotyping. We discuss the implications of these findings for research on automatic stereotyping.
AB - Research on automatic stereotyping is dominated by the idea that automatic stereotyping reflects the activation of (group–trait) associations. In two preregistered experiments (total N = 391), we tested predictions derived from an alternative perspective that suggests that automatic stereotyping is the result of the activation of propositional representations that, unlike associations, can encode relational information and have truth values. Experiment 1 found that automatic stereotyping is sensitive to the validity of information about pairs of traits and groups. Experiment 2 showed that automatic stereotyping is sensitive to the specific relations (e.g., whether a particular group is more or less friendly than a reference person) between pairs of traits and groups. Interestingly, both experiments found a weaker influence of validity/relational information on automatic stereotyping than on non-automatic stereotyping. We discuss the implications of these findings for research on automatic stereotyping.
KW - automatic stereotyping
KW - implicit stereotypes
KW - propositional representations
KW - relational information
KW - validity
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U2 - 10.1177/01461672211024121
DO - 10.1177/01461672211024121
M3 - Article
C2 - 34259593
AN - SCOPUS:85127389316
SN - 0146-1672
VL - 48
SP - 1024
EP - 1038
JO - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
JF - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
IS - 7
ER -