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The composition of category conjunctions.

Hutter, Russell R.C., Crisp, Richard J. (2005) The composition of category conjunctions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31 (5). pp. 647-657. ISSN 0146-1672. (doi:10.1177/0146167204271575) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:4342)

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Abstract

In three experiments, the authors investigated the impression-formation process resulting from the perception of familiar or unfamiliar social category combinations. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to generate attributes associated with either a familiar or unfamiliar social category conjunction. Compared to familiar combinations, the authors found that when the conjunction was unfamiliar, participants formed their impression less from the individual constituent categories and relatively more from novel emergent attributes. In Experiment 2 the authors replicated this effect using alternative experimental materials. In Experiment 3, the effect generalized to additional (orthogonally combined) gender and occupation categories. The implications of these findings for understanding the processes involved in the conjunction of social categories, and the formation of new stereotypes, are discussed.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/0146167204271575
Uncontrolled keywords: social categorization; stereotyping; impression formation
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: C.A. Simms
Date Deposited: 08 Jun 2008 13:01 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:42 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/4342 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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