CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Automaticity, Sleepwalking, Housing Discrimination
26 Mar 2017
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Automatic processes and behaviour typically exhibit the following features: Contrasted with cognitive control processes that are typically effortful, attentive, conscious, and deliberate (ex. Research suggests that much of our social behaviour is automatically guided by influences of which we are unaware. Being mimicked by a stranger enhances feelings of social harmony and perceived likability (bargh & chartrand 1999) Competency judgements made after being presented with faces for a few milliseconds successfully predicted outcomes of elections in which target people were candidates (ballew & todorov 2007) The initial judgements don"t change the longer someone looks at someone"s face, in fact they become more confident in their flash judgement. Priming with elderly stereotypes causes people to walk more slowly and judge hills to be steeper (bargh et al. Infants primed with pictures containing prosocial behaviour were more likely to help an experimenter who dropped their things. Often reflect embody negative stereotypes of stigmatized groups and result in discriminatory behaviour.
