Error-related negativity varies with the activation of gender stereotypes
Error-related negativity varies with the activation of gender stereotypes
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与错误相关的消极情绪随着性别刻板印象的激活而变化
DOI:
10.1016/j.neulet.2008.06.080
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发表时间:
2008-09-19
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Che, Hongmin
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作者:
Ma, Qingguo;Shu, Liangchao;Che, Hongmin
The error-related negativity (ERN) was suggested to reflect the response-performance monitoring process. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the activation of gender stereotypes influences the ERN. Twenty-eight male participants were asked to complete a tool or kitchenware identification task. The prime stimulus is a picture of a male or female face and the target stimulus is either a kitchen utensil or a hand tool. The ERN amplitude on male-kitchenware trials is significantly larger than that on female-kitchenware trials, which reveals the low-level, automatic activation of gender stereotypes. The ERN that was elicited in this task has two sources-operation errors and the conflict between the gender stereotype activation and the non-prejudice beliefs. And the gender stereotype activation may be the key factor leading to this difference of ERN. In other words, the stereotype activation in this experimental paradigm may be indexed by the ERN. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.