title: Conceptualizing control in social cognition: how executive functioning modulates the expression of automatic stereotyping.
abstract: Two studies investigated the role of executive control in moderating the relationship between automatic stereotype activation and behavioral responses. Race bias in weapon identification was used to measure stereotyping, and a process dissociation procedure was used to measure automatic and controlled components of performance. In Experiment 1, the controlled component was shown to correlate with general attention control and race-specific motivations to control prejudice. Across multiple measures, automatic race bias was more likely to be expressed as behavioral discrimination among individuals with poor executive control. Experiment 2 found the same relationship between automatic and controlled components of behavior when predicting impressions of a Black individual. Executive control is discussed in the context of other control strategies in influential dual-process models of stereotyping.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, USA. payne@unc.edu
authors.forename: B Keith
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Payne
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001332:Automatism; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012438:Saccades; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping