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Reduced Constituent Category Application in Surprising Combinations

Hutter, Russell R.C., Crisp, Richard J. (2008) Reduced Constituent Category Application in Surprising Combinations. Journal of Social Psychology, 148 (2). pp. 247-251. ISSN 0022-4545. (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:4344)

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Abstract

In a previous study (R. R. C. Hutter & R. J. Crisp, 2005), the authors suggested

that one way in which perceivers resolve the dilemma of shared membership of

incongruent category combinations is by generating emergent attributes. However, the

authors also found evidence that a corresponding process of reduced constituent facilitation

occurs. In the present research, the authors aimed to isolate this phenomenon using

a response-time methodology. Participants were exposed to subliminal unsurprising

or surprising gender–occupation category-combination primes. The authors observed

facilitation in overall response times on a subsequent lexical decision task to constituent

attributes when the combination primed was unsurprising compared with surprising, but

only for female and not for male combinations. The authors suggest that perceivers reduce

their application of constituent attributes when processing surprising versus unsurprising

combinations.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled keywords: category combinations, facilitation, group membership, stereotype priming
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 13:35 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:42 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/4344 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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