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The composition of category conjunctions.

Russell R C Hutter1, Richard J Crisp

  • 1School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. r.r.hutter@bham.ac.uk

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
|April 2, 2005
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When people encounter unfamiliar social category combinations, their impressions rely more on emergent attributes than on constituent categories. This impacts how new stereotypes form.

Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Impression Formation

Background:

  • Understanding how individuals form impressions of others is fundamental to social cognition.
  • The process of combining social categories (e.g., gender, occupation) influences stereotype formation.
  • Existing research has explored impression formation from single social categories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the familiarity of social category combinations affects impression formation.
  • To examine whether novel emergent attributes play a greater role when categories are unfamiliar.
  • To explore the implications for the development of new stereotypes.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted involving participants' perception of social category combinations.

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  • Participants generated attributes for familiar or unfamiliar social category conjunctions.
  • Stimuli included combinations of social categories, including gender and occupation.

    • Main Results:

    • When social category conjunctions were unfamiliar, participants relied less on constituent categories.
    • Novel emergent attributes were more influential in forming impressions of unfamiliar combinations.
    • This effect was replicated across different experimental materials and category types.

    Conclusions:

    • The familiarity of social category combinations significantly alters impression formation processes.
    • Unfamiliar combinations foster reliance on emergent attributes, potentially leading to new stereotype formation.
    • Findings contribute to understanding the dynamic nature of social categorization and stereotyping.