TY - JOUR
T1 - Incidentally activated knowledge and stereotype based judgments
T2 - A consideration of primed construct-target attribute match
AU - Corneille, Olivier
AU - Vescio, Theresa K.
AU - Judd, Charles M.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Research on priming suggests that incidentally activated traits (e.g., dependence) only influence judgments about applicable targets (e.g., female). In previous studies that examined this issue, however, the activation of a trait was confounded with the activation of a specific gender category. It is unclear whether social applicability effects were from (a) the activation of a socially applicable trait; (b) the activation of a socially applicable gender category; or (c) the joint activation of these last two factors. We report two studies that unconfound these prime types. In Experiment 1, we obtained a priming effect for socially applicable traits only. This influence, however, turned out to be contrastive, which we assumed occurred because participants had corrected for mental contamination by these traits. Experiment 2 tested this idea by manipulating participants' attentional resources, in addition to the prime types. As predicted, the activation of socially applicable traits resulted in.
AB - Research on priming suggests that incidentally activated traits (e.g., dependence) only influence judgments about applicable targets (e.g., female). In previous studies that examined this issue, however, the activation of a trait was confounded with the activation of a specific gender category. It is unclear whether social applicability effects were from (a) the activation of a socially applicable trait; (b) the activation of a socially applicable gender category; or (c) the joint activation of these last two factors. We report two studies that unconfound these prime types. In Experiment 1, we obtained a priming effect for socially applicable traits only. This influence, however, turned out to be contrastive, which we assumed occurred because participants had corrected for mental contamination by these traits. Experiment 2 tested this idea by manipulating participants' attentional resources, in addition to the prime types. As predicted, the activation of socially applicable traits resulted in.
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U2 - 10.1521/soco.2000.18.4.377
DO - 10.1521/soco.2000.18.4.377
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034563251
SN - 0278-016X
VL - 18
SP - 377
EP - 399
JO - Social Cognition
JF - Social Cognition
IS - 4
ER -