Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) · 2002 · 19 citations · 22 references
Social SciencesPsychologySocial PsychologyExperimental PsychologyPrejudiceStereotypingImmigrant PrejudiceMotivational Bases Of PrejudicePrejudice ReductionStereotype ActivationStereotype ThreatStereotypesAutomatic PrejudiceAutomatic StereotypingImmigrant Prejudice ReductionImmigrant Stereotype ActivationImmigrant StereotypesPriming TheoryStereotype PrimingSuppression Of Prejudiced Responses
Abstract. We investigated the effect of incidentally presented constructs that imply self-control on activated stereotypes associated with immigrants. To activate immigrant stereotypes, participants responded to a scale that measures people’s prejudice toward immigrants. They were then primed, using scrambled sentences, with words that were related to self-control (e.g., control, restrain, self-regulate) or with neutral words. After the priming task, participants evaluated an ambiguous behavior of a target person. On the basis of three experiments, the results showed that participants primed with the control-related words rated the target behavior more positively than those primed with neutral words. The results are discussed in relation to previous research on self-control, automatic influence of activated constructs, and prejudice reduction.
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