Conflict Monitoring and the Control of Prejudice

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究旨在探讨偏见和刻板印象的抑制机制。我们特别感兴趣的是如何检测内隐激活的刻板印象和偏见联想，以便随后抑制它们的影响。本研究的首要目标是将冲突监测和认知控制的认知神经科学模型与成功抑制偏见和刻板印象的模型和发现相结合。最终，我们希望全面了解个人在遇到不同社会群体成员时如何管理自己的反应，从而抑制偏见和刻板印象的影响。这方面的知识应能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消极后果。

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.