The effects of name and religious priming on ratings of a well-known political figure, President Barack Obama.

ABSTRACT: Priming with race-typed names and religious concepts have been shown to activate stereotypes and increase prejudice towards out-groups. We examined the effects of name and religious word priming on views of a specific and well-known person, President Barack Obama. We predicted that politically conservative participants primed with President Obama's middle name (Hussein) would rate him more negatively and be more likely to view him as a Muslim than those not shown his middle name. We also examined whether conservatives primed with concrete religious words would rate President Obama more negatively and be more likely to view him as Muslim than those primed with other word types. Furthermore, we predicted that those who mis-identify President Obama as Muslim would rate him more negatively tha

SUBMITTER: Williams GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5493426 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature