Incidentally activated knowledge and stereotype based judgements: a consideration of primed construct-target attribute match

Article Abstract:

This article examines social cognition and primed knowledge, focusing on how incidentally activated knowledge affects social perception. Topics addressed include stereotype activation, impression formation, social applicability, and gender role.

United States, Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Statistical Data Included, Knowledge, Theory of, Epistemology, Stereotype (Psychology), Stereotypes (Psychology), Priming (Psychology)

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Use of mental frequency distributions to represent variability among members of social categories

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An alternative model of social category representation is presented. The main feature of this model is the use of mental frequency distributions to recall and organize a group according to a certain characteristic. Three experiments were conducted to validate the model. The results indicate a possible explanation for out-group homogeneity. Following the proposed model, out-groups are culled from a main group on a given variable and are thus perceived as less variable than in-groups.

Social groups, Human information processing, Intergroup relations

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Social judgeability and the bogus pipeline: the role of naive theories of judgment in impression formation

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The role of naive theories of judgment in social inference processes was investigated using the social judgeability theory. Experiments were conducted to test whether the mere feeling of the presence of information can lead social perceivers to make decisions about others. Results showed that the absence of information lessens the tendency of perceivers to judge in a context that does not stress so much social judgment. Rather, social perceivers rely on implicit theories of judgment when making impressions about others.

Cognition, Impression formation (Psychology)

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