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When internalization leads to automatization: The role of self-determination in automatic stereotype suppression and implicit prejudice regulation

Motivation and Emotion, ISSN: 0146-7239, Vol: 33, Issue: 1, Page: 10-24
2009
  • 46
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    Usage
  • 97
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    46
    • Citation Indexes
      46
  • Captures
    97

Article Description

Recent evidence suggests that self-determined prejudice regulation is negatively related to both self-reported prejudice and automatic racial bias. However, the social-cognitive processes involved in this association have not yet been examined. Thus, the current project sought to test the 'internalization-automatization hypothesis', that is, to assess the extent to which prejudice regulation is automatic for those high and low in self-determined motivation to regulate prejudice. To this end, two different experimental paradigms were used. In Experiment 1 (N = 84), differences in the automatic activation and application of stereotypes were assessed for those high and low in self-determined prejudice regulation. As expected, both types of prejudice regulators showed similar stereotype activation. However, only self-determined individuals inhibited the application of stereotypes following a prime. Experiment 2 (N = 134), assessed the impact of self-regulatory depletion on the regulation of implicit prejudice. As anticipated, for the self-determined regulators, prejudice regulation did not vary between depleted and non-depleted individuals. However, when non-self-determined prejudice regulators were depleted, prejudice increased, relative to non-depleted controls. Results are discussed in terms of an increased understanding of prejudice regulation through self-determination. Evidence of the automatization of self-determined prejudice regulation offers promising implications for the reduction of prejudice. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

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