Imagining stereotypes away: The moderation of implicit stereotypes through mental imagery
Imagining stereotypes away: The moderation of implicit stereotypes through mental imagery
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.81.5.828
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发表时间：
2001-11-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Lenton, AP
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作者：
Blair, IV;Ma, JE;Lenton, AP
对内隐定型观念的研究提出了关于个人调节和控制定型反应的能力的重要问题。由于很少有策略能有效地调节内隐效应，本研究探讨了一种基于集中心理意象的新策略。在5个实验中，参与者从事反刻板印象的心理意象产生显着较弱的内隐刻板印象相比，参与者从事中立，刻板，或没有心理意象。通过各种测量证明了这种降低，消除了基于反应抑制或反应标准变化的解释。相反，结果表明，内隐刻板印象是可塑性的，控制过程，如心理意象，可能会影响刻板印象的过程在其早期和后期阶段。
Research on implicit stereotypes has raised important questions about an individual's ability to moderate and control stereotypic responses. With few strategies shown to be effective in moderating implicit effects, the present research investigates a new strategy based on focused mental imagery. Across 5 experiments, participants who engaged in counterstereotypic mental imagery produced substantially weaker implicit stereotypes compared with participants who engaged in neutral, stereotypic, or no mental imagery. This reduction was demonstrated with a variety of measures, eliminating explanations based on response suppression or shifts in response criterion. Instead, the results suggest that implicit stereotypes are malleable, and that controlled processes, such as mental imagery, may influence the stereotyping process at its early as well as later stages.