The afterglow of construct accessibility: the behavioral consequences of priming men to view women as sexual objects

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to test the hypothesis that temporary and chronic construct accessibility effects can influence cognitive and behavioral responses on an independent basis. Men who were primed to view women as sexual objects reacted more quickly to sexist words and recognized nonsexist words more slowly than non-primed subjects. After the men interviewed a female job applicant under high or low power conditions, it was found that power manipulation, priming manipulation and individual differences affected their stereotyped information acquisition and sexualized behavior during the interview. Thus, the hypothesis is confirmed.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Men, Sexism

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The subjective beliefs underlying probability overestimation

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People apprehend hypothetical events to be more of a chance than is statistically possible. Three experiments conducted to examine why inflated numerical probability judgments form and why they reflect people's subjective beliefs indicated that inflated numerical probability judgements often overestimate the probability of events to happen. People have the tendency to go beyond information given and are able to group people and situations and make scenarios and plans.

Judgment, Judgment (Psychology), Social prediction

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The deautomatization of accessible attitudes

Article Abstract:

The attitudinal effects of repeatedly recognizing an object in a setting where it is not needed and the level of automatic attitude activation were studied with 32 students of a psychology course from the University of Utah. The findings illustrate the adaptation of the mind to changing needs and environmental demands, indicating that attitudes are activated if they are useful in social worlds but diminish if the context changes and are no longer necessary.

Science & research, Analysis, Attitudes, Attitude (Psychology)

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