The Identification of Prejudicial Attitudes by the Galvanic Skin Response

Cooper, Joseph B.; Pollock, D. J.

doi:10.1080/00224545.1959.9921998

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“…Although most of the researchers were aware of this issue, the way they handled it was sometimes unsatisfactory. In three studies by Cooper and associates (Cooper & Pollock, 1959;Cooper & Siegel, 1956;Cooper & Singer, 1956), for example, only intrasubject analyses were performed so that "each subject's laboratory session was treated as an independent experiment" (Cooper, 1959, p. 315). In another study, Cooper (1969) resorted to binomial tests to determine the presence of differences across conditions.…”

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Psychophysiological Assessment of Prejudice: Past Research, Current Status, and Future Directions

1999

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Many early studies of prejudice adopted psychophysiological measures as a way to circumvent the limitations of self-report instruments. Despite serious methodological weaknesses, that literature consistently points to the value of physiological probes as nonreactive indexes of affective responses to target stimuli. Possible reasons for the virtual abandonment of psychophysiological approaches in the study of prejudice over the last 15 years are outlined, and their reintroduction is advocated on methodological and conceptual grounds. Theoretical perspectives and empirical research in a closely related area, the psychophysiology of emotion, are reviewed and the implications of this literature for the study of prejudice are discussed. Several psychophysiological approaches have been found valuable for assessing the valence and intensity of emotional responses. The availability of these tools, together with the shifting theoretical zeitgeist, make prejudice research ready for a return to psychophysiological methodologies. A multi-method prejudice assessment model is proposed and its theoretical and heuristic advantages are discussed.

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Psychophysiological Assessment of Prejudice: Past Research, Current Status, and Future Directions

1999

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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“…Some early studies indicated that racially prejudiced white subjects respond with greater arousal (as measured with skin conductance) to being touched by a black "experimenter" (Rankin and Campbell, 1955), or by visual presentations of blacks (Cooper and Pollock, 1959;Cooper and Siegel, 1956;Vidulich and Krevanick, 1966;Westie and DeFleur, 1959). Such studies showed that attitudes measured by verbal response scaling have an emotional component measurable as autonomic responsivity (see also Staats, et al, 1962 Dickson andMcGinnes, 1966).…”

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Studies in the Physiological Component of Aggression-Related Social Attitudes

Watts¹,

Sumi²

1979

American Journal of Political Science

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“…Investigations of such physiological functions have tended to focus on galvanic skin responses (GSR) resulting from indirect exposure to the object of prejudice. For example, in a series of studies by Cooper and his associates (Cooper, 19S9;Cooper & Pollock, 1959;Cooper & Siegel, 1956;Cooper & Singer, 1956), GSRs were recorded for subjects when a complimentary statement was read about a group against whom they were strongly prejudiced. GSRs to these statements were greater than to similar statements about groups toward whom subjects felt less antipathy.…”

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Galvanic Skin Responses and Prejudice.

Porier¹,

Lott²

1967

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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In this experiment the consistency between the cognitive and emotional components of negative attitudes (prejudice) is investigated. A study by Rankin and Campbell which found greater GSR levels in white Ss to incidental hand contacts by a single Negro E than by a single white E was replicated employing a sample of Negro and white stimulus persons. The California E Scale and Rokeach's Opinionation Scale were used as self-report measures of prejudice. The Rankin and Campbell finding was not reproduced; E Scale scores, but not Opinionation scores, were found to correlate significantly with GSR bias scores. Results are discussed in terms of ethnic prejudice, belief prejudice, and need for employing groups of individuals where person stimuli are used as independent variables.

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The Identification of Prejudicial Attitudes by the Galvanic Skin Response

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Psychophysiological Assessment of Prejudice: Past Research, Current Status, and Future Directions

Psychophysiological Assessment of Prejudice: Past Research, Current Status, and Future Directions

Studies in the Physiological Component of Aggression-Related Social Attitudes

Galvanic Skin Responses and Prejudice.

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