Something in the Way You Primed Me: Belief Monitoring When Source Identification Is Not Possible

Cognitive Malleability and the Wisdom of Independent Aggregation

“…More recent studies (Santos, Garcia-Marques, Mackie, Ferreira, et al, 2012;Santos, Garcia-Marques, Mackie, Palma, et al, 2017) have shown the extent to which such incorporation can influence stereotypes. Even stereotype-unrelated traits may become "one of the best descriptors of the group" when they have been subtly primed in an unrelated task.…”

Inducing perceived group variability triggers the incorporation of counter-stereotypic information into a generalized stereotype change

“…The sample size was determined by a priori power analysis conducted using G*Power 65 . Past research on this topic 23 , 28 , 55 , led us to expect medium-sized effects (based on the conventions established by 71 ). We assumed a medium effect size and a correlation of 0.5 between measures.…”

“…The selection of professional groups and primed concepts was guided by earlier work outlined in 23 , 24 , 28 , 55 , and for a detailed procedure, refer to 23 , 24 . Indeed, previous studies 23 , 24 , 28 (after pretesting) identified four target groups with strong consensual stereotypes: computer programmers (intelligent), construction workers (not intelligent), childcare professionals (friendly), and disco bouncers (unfriendly).…”

“…Past studies have supported the idea that stereotypes are flexible and adaptable constructs, with components that can be rearranged into a ‘working stereotype’, when necessary 28 , 54 , 55 . Across three experiments 28 , constructs with varying degrees of stereotype relevance were activated in an unrelated context to examine whether these concepts influenced the content or variability of subsequent assessed stereotypes.…”