Comparing person and people perception: Multiple group members do not increase stereotype priming.

ABSTRACT: A characteristic feature of daily life is encountering people in groups. Surprisingly, however, at least during the initial stages of processing, research has focused almost exclusively on the construal of single individuals. As such, it remains unclear whether person and people (i.e., group) perception yield comparable or divergent outcomes. Addressing this issue, here we explored a core social-cognitive topic-stereotype activation-by presenting both single and multiple facial primes in a sequential-priming task. In addition, the processes underlying task performance were probed using a drift diffusion model analysis. Based on prior work, it was hypothesised that multiple (vs. single) primes would increase stereotype-based responding. Across two experiments, a consistent pattern of result

SUBMITTER: Persson LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8261783 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature