Reactions to a Black professional: Motivated inhibition and activation of conflicting stereotypes.

1999-01-01articleJournal of Personality and Social Psychology383 citationsclosed

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

Social and Intergroup Psychology Racial and Ethnic Identity Research Social Power and Status Dynamics

Abstract

The motivation to form a particular impression of an individual can prompt the inhibition of applicable stereotypes that contradict one's desired impression and the activation and application of stereotypes that support it. Participants, especially those high in prejudice, inhibited the Black stereotype when motivated to esteem a Black individual (because he had praised them). Participants motivated to esteem a Black doctor also activated the doctor stereotype. In contrast, participants motivated to disparage a Black doctor (because he had criticized them) inhibited the doctor stereotype. Participants motivated to disparage a Black individual also applied the Black stereotype to him, rating him as relatively incompetent. All these effects were driven by the self-protective motives of recipients of feedback from Black evaluators; detached observers showed no such effects.

Citations in this library

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 383 citations exist upstream.

References

1986Psychology of intergroup relations

1990The case for motivated reasoning.

1995Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans.

1999Dual-process theories in social psychology

1989Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components.

2008Social psychology: handbook of basic principles

1996Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action.

1994Ironic processes of mental control.

Cited by

2006Reducing Automatically Activated Racial Prejudice Through Implicit Evaluative Conditioning

2007Multiple Social Categorization

2000Meta-stereotype activation: Evidence from indirect measures for specific evaluative concerns experienced by members of dominant groups in intergroup interaction.

2004Priming unconscious racial stereotypes about adolescent offenders.

2001Social cognition: Categorical person perception

2005Social Tuning of Automatic Racial Attitudes: The Role of Affiliative Motivation.

2009Predicting Behavior During Interracial Interactions: A Stress and Coping Approach

2008Bringing Automatic Stereotyping Under Control: Implementation Intentions as Efficient Means of Thought Control