Conflict Monitoring and the Control of Prejudice

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的目标是调查参与抑制偏见和刻板印象的机制。我们特别感兴趣的是，如何隐性激活的陈规定型观念和偏见协会被发现，使他们的影响可能随后被抑制。拟议的研究的一个总体目标是整合认知神经科学模型的冲突监测和认知控制的模型和研究结果的成功抑制偏见和刻板印象。最终，我们希望全面了解个人在遇到不同社会群体的成员时如何管理自己的反应，以抑制偏见和陈规定型观念的影响。这一知识应提高我们设计干预措施和战略的能力，以阻止偏见和陈规定型观念的负面影响。 拟议的研究将评估前扣带皮层（ACC）和前额叶皮层（PFC）区域在使用神经成像和头皮记录的事件相关脑电位检测偏见和刻板印象中的作用。我们将具体研究在何种程度上组成员和类别标签隐含激活的评价和刻板印象的反应，与非偏见的陈述相冲突，并在何种程度上检测到这种冲突的ACC和PFC。我们还将研究的作用，ACC和PFC调解的冲突监测系统在生产成功的抑制刻板印象。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed research is to investigate mechanisms involved in the inhibition of prejudice and stereotypes. We are specifically interested in how implicitly activated stereotypical and prejudicial associations are detected so that their influences may be subsequently inhibited. An overarching goal of the proposed research is to integrate cognitive neuroscience models of conflict monitoring and cognitive control with models and findings on the successful inhibition of prejudice and stereotypes. Ultimately, we hope to develop a comprehensive understanding of how individuals manage their reactions when encountering members of different social groups so as to inhibit the effects of prejudice and stereotypes. This knowledge should increase our ability to design interventions and strategies to block the negative consequences of prejudice and stereotyping. The proposed studies will assess the role of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and areas of prefrontal cortex (PFC) in detecting prejudice and stereotypes using neuroimaging and scalp-recorded event-related brain potentials. We will specifically examine the extent to which group members and category labels implicitly activate evaluative and stereotypical responses that conflict with non-prejudicial representations, and the degree to which this conflict is detected by the ACC and PFC. We will also examine the role of ACC and PFC mediated conflict monitoring systems in producing successful inhibition of stereotypes.