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Automatic social behavior as motivated preparation to interact.

Joseph Cesario1, Jason E Plaks, E Tory Higgins

  • 1Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. jcesario@psych.columbia.edu

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
|June 21, 2006
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Automatic social behaviors stem from preparing to interact with primed social groups. This preparation, not direct stereotyping, influences actions like aggression or altered walking speed based on group attitudes.

Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Automatic social behaviors are often attributed to stereotyping.
  • An alternative explanation suggests these behaviors arise from interaction preparation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether automatic social behaviors result from interaction preparation rather than direct stereotypic expression.
  • To examine the role of implicit attitudes in modulating preparatory responses to social group priming.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: Primed participants with a disliked outgroup and measured aggression and passivity.
  • Study 2: Assessed walking speed after priming with "elderly" or "youth" based on participants' implicit attitudes.
  • Study 3: Examined the accessibility patterns of primed categories.

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Main Results:

  • Priming a disliked outgroup led to aggression (preparation), not passivity (stereotyping).
  • Implicit attitudes modulated walking speed in response to "elderly" and "youth" primes, consistent with preparation.
  • Primed category accessibility resembled goal-related constructs, including post-goal inhibition.

Conclusions:

  • Automatic social behaviors are better explained by interaction preparation than direct stereotyping.
  • Stored knowledge and category accessibility play a role in modulating social responses.
  • Findings have implications for understanding the functional role of stored social knowledge.