THINK OF CAPABLE OTHERS AND YOU CAN MAKE IT! SELF-EFFICACY MEDIATES THE EFFECT OF STEREOTYPE ACTIVATION ON BEHAVIOR
THINK OF CAPABLE OTHERS AND YOU CAN MAKE IT! SELF-EFFICACY MEDIATES THE EFFECT OF STEREOTYPE ACTIVATION ON BEHAVIOR
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DOI：
10.1521/soco.2009.27.1.76
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发表时间：
2009-02-01
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影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Waenke, Michaela
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作者：
Hansen, Jochim;Waenke, Michaela
先前的研究表明，激活刻板印象可以以刻板印象一致的方式影响随后的行为。本研究探讨了自我效能信念在这一效应中的作用。具体来说，我们表明，被启动与刻板印象的教授增加知识的信心相比，被启动与教育程度较低的专业（实验I和2），这些较高的自我效能的信念导致更高的性能在一般知识测试（实验2）。这些发现证实了实验3，表明与运动员的刻板印象启动的参与者表现出更高的持久性，在体育锻炼比参与者启动与刻板印象少相关的持久性。同样，行为是由自我效能信念介导的。这一发现与主动自我解释（惠勒& Petty，2001;惠勒，DeMarree，& Petty，2007）一致，后者认为刻板印象的启动通过改变自我表征来影响一个人的行为。
Previous research has shown that activating a stereotype can influence subsequent behavior in a stereotype-consistent way. The present research investigates the role of self-efficacy beliefs in this effect. Specifically, we demonstrate that being primed with the stereotype of professors increases knowledge confidence compared to being primed with a less educated profession (Experiments I and 2), and that these higher self-efficacy beliefs result in higher performance at a general knowledge test (Experiment 2). These findings are corroborated in Experiment 3 that shows that participants primed with the stereotype of athletes show higher persistence in a physical exercise than participants primed with a stereotype less associated with persistence. Again, behavior was mediated by self-efficacy beliefs. The findings are in line with the active-self account (Wheeler & Petty, 2001; Wheeler, DeMarree, & Petty, 2007) that proposes that priming with a stereotype influences a person's behavior through altered self-representations.