Affect and stereotyping: the effect of induced mood on distinctiveness-based illusory correlations. |
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Authors: | S J Stroessner D L Hamilton D M Mackie |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106. |
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Abstract: | In 2 studies, the effects of mood on the formation of distinctiveness-based illusory correlations were examined. After exposure to stimuli inducing positive, neutral, or negative mood, Ss read information about behaviors performed by members of 2 groups in an illusory correlation paradigm. In both experiments, only Ss in a neutral mood formed illusory correlations. In addition, Experiment 2 assessed Ss' processing latencies as a means of investigating differential attention to distinctive behaviors. Only Ss in a neutral mood differentially attended to the minority group's infrequent behaviors. Induced mood apparently interfered with the processing necessary to differentially encode distinctive stimuli, undermining the illusory correlation effect. |
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