Collaborative Research: Investigating Underlying Mechanisms and Behavioral Consequences of Emotion-Induced Implicit Prejudice

合作研究：调查情绪引发的内隐偏见的潜在机制和行为后果

• 批准号: 0921139
• 负责人: David DeSteno
• 金额: $ 20.49万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0921139&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Investigating; Underlying; Mechanisms

The goal of this collaborative research project is to examine the conditions under which incidental emotions exacerbate intergroup prejudice, stereotyping, and discriminatory behavior. In the intergroup context, incidental emotions refer to affective states that individuals may be experiencing immediately before they encounter outgroup members and whose evocation is unrelated to these groups. As such, these states are different from integral emotions, which refer to affective states that are directly evoked by an outgroup when people reflect on or encounter them. The investigators propose a theoretical model that specifies selective attention as the most likely mediator between incidental emotion and subsequent bias in judgments and action. The primary goal of the present proposal is to test the veracity of the proposed model in three sets of studies. The first set of studies examines the selective attention hypothesis. These studies examine whether incidental emotions cause individuals to focus on members of groups stereotypically associated with the activated emotion, and whether this attention is focused particularly on emotion relevant features of the groups. These studies also examine whether incidental emotion increases emotions explicitly tied to the target group (integral emotion) and a focus on incidental emotion specific features of individuals in the target group. The second set of studies tests the hypothesis that incidental emotion affects perceptions of non-prototypical members of target groups more than prototypic members. The third set of studies focus on the behavioral consequences of incidental emotion. These studies examine the hypothesis that the effect of incidental emotions on attention, and implicit biases can cause discriminatory behaviors. Importantly, this project will build scientific infrastructure by strengthening collaborations between two labs with different expertise: the study of emotion and implicit social cognition. This project will also provide many opportunities for members of underrepresented minorities to be trained in scientific research.

该协作研究项目的目的是检查偶然情绪加剧群体间偏见，刻板印象和歧视性行为的条件。在群体间的环境中，偶然的情绪是指情感状态，即个人在遇到外部成员之前可能会立即体验到他们的唤起与这些群体无关。因此，这些状态与整体情绪不同，这些情绪是指人们反思或遇到它们时直接引起的情感状态。研究人员提出了一个理论模型，该模型将选择性关注视为偶然情绪与随后的判断和行动偏见之间最有可能的调解者。本提案的主要目标是在三组研究中测试所提出的模型的真实性。第一组研究检查了选择性注意假设。这些研究检查了偶然的情绪是否会导致个人专注于与激活情绪刻板印象相关的群体的成员，以及这种关注是否特别关注群体的情感相关特征。这些研究还检查了偶然的情绪是否会显式地与目标群体（积分情绪）明确息息相关，并着重于目标群体中个人的偶然情绪特定特征。第二组研究检验了以下假设：偶然情绪会影响目标群体的非原型成员的看法，而不是原型成员。 第三组研究集中于偶然情绪的行为后果。这些研究研究了偶然情绪对注意力和隐性偏见的影响的假设会导致歧视性行为。重要的是，该项目将通过加强具有不同专业知识的两个实验室之间的合作来建立科学基础设施：情感和隐性社会认知研究。该项目还将为代表性不足的少数群体的成员提供许多在科学研究中培训的机会。