The impact of implicit prejudice about the elderly on the reaction to stereotype confirmation and disconfirmation |
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Authors: | Luigi Castelli Alexia Zecchini Leyla Deamicis and Steven J Sherman |
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Institution: | (1) University of Padova, Italy;(2) Indiana University, USA;(3) Dipartimento di Psicologja dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Via Venezia, 8, 35131 Padova, Italy |
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Abstract: | Previous research demonstrated that perceivers explicitly condemn ingroup members who use racial stereotypes but that they
are implicitly more likely to favor those ingroup members rather than ingroup members who do not use racial stereotypes (Castelli
et al., 2001). The present study has two main goals. First, we want to investigate whether the same effects can be detected
in the domain of ageism. In particular, we predicted that young adults would implicitly but not explicitly favor a young male
who describes an old man in a stereotype-consistent way rather than in a stereotypeinconsistent way. Most importantly, we
hypothesized that this tendency is related to participants’ prejudice level as assessed through an implicit measure (IAT,
Greenwald et al., 1998), so that high prejudice individuals will implicitly favor stereotypere and derogate ingroup members
who use stereotype-inconsistent information. Results provide general support for the hypotheses, and their implications for
stereotype maintenance and change are discussed.
Preparation of this paper was supported by a research grant from the University of Padova to the first author (CPDG018859). |
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