Categorization and individuation in the cross-race recognition deficit: Toward a solution to an insidious problem

Article Abstract:

Three experiments to show that social-cognitive explanation of the CRE are seeing the extent to which the Cross-Race Effect can be reduced by inducing perceivers to individuate than to categorize CR faces were conducted. The results concluded that CRE was due to various social cognitions regarding tin-group and out-group members rather than to differences in perceptual expertise.

Individualism, Perception, Perception (Psychology), Individuality

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I like it, because I like myself: Associative self-anchoring and post-decisional change of implicit evaluations

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An argument on choosing an object can be sufficient to create an association between the chosen object and the self and self-evaluation may associatively transfer to the chosen object is described. It was concluded that post-decisional attitude changes might result from low-level associative processes that do not need higher-order propositional processes.

Association of ideas, Association (Psychology), Attitude change, Anchoring effect, Anchoring and adjustment (Psychology)

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Functional modularity in stereotype representation

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Representations of social categories appear to commonly include ambivalent or evaluatively mixed stereotypic content. A retrieval-practice paradigm is chosen to test the hypothesis regarding the valenced representation of stereotypes.

United States, Product information, Usage, Evaluation, Testing, Paradigms (Social sciences), Stereotype (Psychology), Stereotypes (Psychology), Representation (Philosophy), Representationism

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