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| Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2001): |
Reducing prejudice through priming of control-related words.
Full Abstract
We investigated the effect of incidentally presented constructs that imply self-control on activated stereotypes associated with immigrants. To activate immigrant stereotypes, participants responded to a scale that measures people's prejudice toward immigrants. They were then primed, using scrambled sentences, with words that were related to self-control (e.g., control, restrain, self-regulate) or with neutral words. After the priming task, participants evaluated an ambiguous behavior of a target person. On the basis of three experiments, the results showed that participants primed with the control-related words rated the target behavior more positively than those primed with neutral words. The results are discussed in relation to previous research on self-control, automatic influence of activated constructs, and prejudice reduction.
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Author/s: Araya, Tadesse (T); Akrami, Nazar (N); Ekehammar, Bo (B); Hedlund, Lars-Erik (LE);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Box 1225, SE-751 42 Uppsala, Sweden. Tadesse.Araya@psyk.uu.se
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Experimental psychology (Exp Psychol), published in Germany. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-; vol 49 (issue 3) : pp 222-7
Dates: Created 2002/08/02; Completed 2002/10/16; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12152365, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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