Stereotype activation is unintentional: Behavioural and event‐related potenials evidence |
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| Authors: | Pei Wang Chen‐Hao Tan Xiang‐Xia Zhao Yong‐He Liu Chong‐De Lin |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China;2. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | In this study, a priming Stroop paradigm was used to determine whether stereotype activation is unintentional. Priming conditions (priming/no‐priming) and the relationship between priming and target (consistent/inconsistent/no‐relation) were the independent variables; accuracy, reaction time and N400 amplitude were used as dependent variables. The reaction time revealed that stereotype activation is, to some extent, unintentional. Furthermore, the event‐related potenial (ERP) results showed that N400 amplitude was larger for inconsistent conditions than for consistent conditions. This result supported the notion that stereotype activation is an unintentional and automatic process. |
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| Keywords: | Stereotype activation Automatic process Unintentional N400 |
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