About the impact of automaticity in the minimal group paradigm: evidence from affective priming tasks
✍ Scribed by Sabine Otten; Dirk Wentura
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
Two experiments examined whether novel, minimal ingroups are automatically associated with positive aect while outgroups do not elicit such positive evaluative default. Participants were assigned to social categories in a typical minimal group setting and subsequently administered a masked priming task, i.e. prime words were not consciously recognized. Following either the presentation of a priori positive or negative words or the presentation of the group labels, participants classi®ed adjectives with regard to their valence ( positive/negative). In Experiment 1, a standard aective priming paradigm was realized with response latencies as dependent measures; in Experiment 2, a response window technique was used, with errors as crucial measure. In both studies, signi®cant aective congruency eects emerged similarly for standard primes and category labels, indicating ingroup bias on an implicit level.