Categorization by race: the impact of automatic and controlled components of racial prejudice

Article Abstract:

Fifty-four Indiana University students were asked to participate in an experiment conducted to discover the impact of automatic and controlled components of racial prejudice on categorization of individuals by race. The participants' were shown 48 color photographs of individuals of various races, gender and occupations, and their responses were observed. Results indicate that the manner in which the stimuli is categorized is affected by the perceiver's characteristics, and both controlled and automatic components of racial prejudice affect an individual's race-related behavior and judgments.

Research, Race discrimination

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Automatically activated racial attitudes as predictors of success of interracial roommate relationships

Article Abstract:

Studies on racial prejudice have revealed that race-related judgments and behaviors involve a complex interplay of motivated and automatic processes. Studies conducted on incoming White freshmen, who were randomly assigned to share rooms with African-American freshmen, to assess the success of interracial roommate relationships suggested that white students' automatically activated racial attitudes, but not their motivation to control prejudiced reactions, predicted the longevity of the relationships.

Analysis, Interpersonal relations, Social psychology, Racial attitudes

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The influence of experimentally created extrapersonal associations on the Implicit Association Test

Article Abstract:

The influence of extrapersonal associations, that is, associations that neither form the basis of the attitude nor become activated automatically in response to the object, is examined on the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Results reveal that participants who are given extrapersonal information inconsistent with their attitudes are affected by this when they later perform an IAT, exhibiting lower IAT scores than participants provided with attitude-consistent extrapersonal information.

United States, Psychological aspects, Priming (Psychology), Attitudes, Attitude (Psychology)

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