title: Stereotype activation is unintentional: Behavioural and event-related potenials evidence.
abstract: In this study, a priming Stroop paradigm was used to determine whether stereotype activation is unintentional. Priming conditions (priming/no-priming) and the relationship between priming and target (consistent/inconsistent/no-relation) were the independent variables; accuracy, reaction time and N400 amplitude were used as dependent variables. The reaction time revealed that stereotype activation is, to some extent, unintentional. Furthermore, the event-related potenial (ERP) results showed that N400 amplitude was larger for inconsistent conditions than for consistent conditions. This result supported the notion that stereotype activation is an unintentional and automatic process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Pei
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.|Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
authors.forename: Ya-Ping
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Chen-Hao
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Xiang-Xia
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Yong-He
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Chong-De
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013240:Stereotyping; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Automatic process; N400; Stereotype activation; Unintentional