When internalization leads to automatization: The role of self-determination in automatic stereotype suppression and implicit prejudice regulation |
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Authors: | Lisa Legault Isabelle Green-Demers Allison L Eadie |
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Institution: | (1) School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, 136 Jean-Jacques Lussier, Room 352, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 6N5;(2) Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, QC, Canada |
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Abstract: | Recent evidence suggests that self-determined prejudice regulation is negatively related to both self-reported prejudice and
automatic racial bias. However, the social-cognitive processes involved in this association have not yet been examined. Thus,
the current project sought to test the ‘internalization-automatization hypothesis’, that is, to assess the extent to which
prejudice regulation is automatic for those high and low in self-determined motivation to regulate prejudice. To this end,
two different experimental paradigms were used. In Experiment 1 (N = 84), differences in the automatic activation and application of stereotypes were assessed for those high and low in self-determined
prejudice regulation. As expected, both types of prejudice regulators showed similar stereotype activation. However, only
self-determined individuals inhibited the application of stereotypes following a prime. Experiment 2 (N = 134), assessed the impact of self-regulatory depletion on the regulation of implicit prejudice. As anticipated, for the
self-determined regulators, prejudice regulation did not vary between depleted and non-depleted individuals. However, when
non-self-determined prejudice regulators were depleted, prejudice increased, relative to non-depleted controls. Results are
discussed in terms of an increased understanding of prejudice regulation through self-determination. Evidence of the automatization
of self-determined prejudice regulation offers promising implications for the reduction of prejudice.
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Keywords: | Self-determination Automaticity Implicit motivation Prejudice regulation Stereotype Suppression Self-regulation |
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