Automatic stereotypes vs. automatic prejudice: Sorting out the possibilities in the weapon paradigm

@article{citeulike:34896, abstract = {Payne (2001) has documented that African-American faces automatically facilitate the categorization of handguns, relative to White faces. We suggest that these provocative results could derive from either the automatic activation of prejudice (negative evaluations) or the automatic activation of stereotypes (both positively and negatively valenced associations). In an extension of Payne’s procedure, we show that African-American faces facilitate the categorization of both handguns and sports-related objects, but not the categorization of insects or fruits. Additionally, both handguns and sports objects are more likely to be miscategorized following a White face prime than an African-American one. These results suggest that when perceivers are attempting to identify objects, automatic stereotypic associations, both positively and negatively valenced ones, are more influential than general negative sentiments towards African-Americans.}, author = {Judd, C. M. and Blair, I. V. and Chapleau, K. M. }, citeulike-article-id = {34896}, doi = {10.1016/S0022-1031(03)00063-5 }, issn = {0022-1031}, journal = {Journal of Experimental Social Psychology}, keywords = {automaticism, bias, discrimination, prejudice, stereotype, weapon}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {75--81}, posted-at = {2005-02-23 14:25:00}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Elsevier Science}, title = {Automatic stereotypes vs. automatic prejudice: Sorting out the possibilities in the weapon paradigm}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1031(03)00063-5\%20}, volume = {40}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:34896 L3 - citeulike-article-id:34896 TI - Automatic stereotypes vs. automatic prejudice: Sorting out the possibilities in the weapon paradigm JF - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology VL - 40 IS - 1 SP - 75 EP - 81 PB - Elsevier Science SN - 0022-1031 N2 - Payne (2001) has documented that African-American faces automatically facilitate the categorization of handguns, relative to White faces. We suggest that these provocative results could derive from either the automatic activation of prejudice (negative evaluations) or the automatic activation of stereotypes (both positively and negatively valenced associations). In an extension of Payne’s procedure, we show that African-American faces facilitate the categorization of both handguns and sports-related objects, but not the categorization of insects or fruits. Additionally, both handguns and sports objects are more likely to be miscategorized following a White face prime than an African-American one. These results suggest that when perceivers are attempting to identify objects, automatic stereotypic associations, both positively and negatively valenced ones, are more influential than general negative sentiments towards African-Americans. KW - automaticism KW - bias KW - discrimination KW - prejudice KW - stereotype KW - weapon AU - Judd, CM AU - Blair, IV AU - Chapleau, KM PY - 2004/01// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1031(03)00063-5%20 ER -