Implicit Attitudes, Implicit Stereotypes, and Predjudice

9422241这项拨款建立在PIs先前发现的隐性性别刻板印象的基础上，即一个明显无意识的过程，错误地将名声分配给熟悉的男性名字，只弱地推广到熟悉的女性名字。更新期的主要目标是开发有效的内隐态度和刻板印象的个体差异测量方法。这项工作将建立在项目初始阶段的发现的基础上，这些发现以及其他实验室最近的发现表明，判断延迟方法最有可能证明在这方面是成功的。验证性因子分析的统计技术将用于检查新开发的措施的敏感性，可靠性和有效性。有效的基于理论的内隐特征测量不仅对该项目的未来研究具有重要价值，而且对许多其他研究人员以及最终的应用环境都具有重要价值。该研究旨在为国家科学基金会人力资本倡议的目标做出贡献，特别是在不利的社会背景下。与这些目标相一致，一个研究项目考察了将人们划分为不同群体以及与这些社会类别相关的刻板印象的基本过程。通过阐明内隐刻板印象在维持歧视中的作用，通过制定和验证内隐刻板印象和偏见的措施，拟议的研究将为旨在克服歧视和劣势的应用研究提供有用的基本工具。

9422241 This grant builds on the PIs' previous finding of implicit gender stereotyping, whereby an apparantly unconscious process of incorrectly assigning fame to familiarized male names generalizes only weakly to familiarized female names. The major goal of the renewal period is to develop efficient individual- difference measures of implicit attitudes and stereotypes. This effort will build on findings from the initial project period that, together with recent findings from other laboratories, suggest that judgment- latency methods are most likely to prove successful for this purpose. The statistical technique of confirmatory factor analysis will be used to examine sensitivity, reliability, and validity of the newly developed measures. Efficient theory-based measures of implicit traits should be of great value not only to future research on this project, but also to many other researchers and, ultimately, in applied settings. The research is designed to contribute to the goals of NSF's Human Capital Initiative, specifically in the social context of disadvantage. Consistent with these goals, a program of research examines basic processes involved in categorizing people into groups and in the stereotyping associated with those social categories. By elucidating the role of implicit stereotyping in sustaining discrimination and by developing and validating measures of implicit stereotyping and prejudice, the proposed research will contribute basic tools that will be useful in applied research aimed at overcoming discrimination and disadvantage.