Prime-to-behavior effects are hypothesized to result from prime-related changes in the self-concept. We tested whether both assimilation and contrast would occur after prime-congruent and prime-incongruent changes in the self-concept. We showed that blond stereotype priming and self-construal interact to influence self-stereotyping and intellectual performance. Independent-blond primed particip...

Age stereotyping at the workplace can lead to discrimination. We investigated stereotype influence on recall. In who-said-what paradigm participants studied older and younger speakers making stereotypical counterstereotypical statements about their work, followed by memory tests for speakers. Statements were more likely attributed a speaker from same age category than other category, replicatin...

Large pre-trained language models are successfully being used in a variety of tasks, across many languages. With this ever-increasing usage, the risk harmful side effects also rises, for example by reproducing and reinforcing stereotypes. However, detecting mitigating these harms is difficult to do general becomes computationally expensive when tackling multiple languages or considering differe...

The overestimation of between-group differences is a central characteristic of social stereotyping. The present review focuses on exemplar-based category learning. Evidence is presented for the assumptions that: (a) contrast effects need to be distinguished from accentuation effects; (b) both effects are general cognitive-perceptual phenomena; and (c) they affect stereotype formation as well as...

Abstract In this research note, we document the extent to which negative beliefs about women's capacity hold public office are widespread in Canada. Using a list experiment, our results demonstrate that many Canadians believe men “naturally better” leaders than women and “too emotional” nice” for politics. While some groups willing explicitly own these views when asked directly them (for exampl...