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A Insustentável Estabilidade dos Estereótipos

Publication . Correia Dos Santos, Ana Sofia; Garcia-Marques, Leonel

2010Journal article

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Cognitive malleability and the wisdom of independent aggregation

Publication . Garcia-Marques, Leonel; Correia Dos Santos, Ana Sofia; Mackie, Diane M.; Haga, Sara; Palma, Tomás

The authors comment on cognitive malleability and the wisdom of independent aggregation of choices, judgment, or responses on implicit tests of stereotyping and prejudice. They discuss the malleability of social stereotypes and other social knowledge structures and the similarities and differences between the bias of crowds model and explicit indices of stereotyping. They raise questions about intraindividual malleability and interindividual stability and nature of human cognition.

2017-12-01Journal article

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The cultural stereotype of professional groups: Consensus, accessibility and typicality of stereotypic contents

Publication . Correia Dos Santos, Ana Sofia; Almeida, Filipa De; Palma, Tomás; Oliveira, Manuel; Garcia-Marques, Leonel

The purpose of the present work was to measure the stereotypic content of several professional groups, by determining the culturally shared stereotypic attributes, their accessibility and typicality. Study 1 used a spontaneous attribute-generation-task to collect the stereotypic content of 28 professional groups in a Portuguese samples. The frequency of generation was used to measure consensus on the attributes generated. The order of generated attributes was used to determine their accessibility. To further explore the link between attributes and the professional group, a new sample (Study 2) rated how typical each attribute was of the professional group. We map out the usefulness of studying professional stereotype's content.

2017-12-26Journal article

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Paradigma subjacente ao estudo das correlações ilusórias na percepção de grupos

Publication . Garcia-Marques, Leonel; Correia Dos Santos, Ana Sofia; Almeida, Filipa

Neste artigo é apresentado efeito de correlações ilusórias na percepção de grupos e o paradigma experimental que esteve subjacente à descoberta desse efeito. Neste sentido são apresentados os estudos originais que deram origem ao paradigma, o método habitualmente utilizado pelos investigadores nesta área, algumas variações experimentais do paradigma, as principais variáveis moderadoras do efeito e as principais teorias explicativas das correlações ilusórias na percepção de grupos.

2012Journal article

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Something in the Way You Primed Me: Belief Monitoring When Source Identification Is Not Possible

Publication . Correia Dos Santos, Ana Sofia; Garcia-Marques, Leonel; Mackie, Diane M.; Palma, Tomás; Costa, Rui Soares; de Almeida, Filipa

It has been shown that subtle contextual primes produce transient changes in stereotypes (Santos et al., 2012), an effect supposedly caused by both activation of the primed trait and failure of belief monitoring. The present research investigated people’s ability to avoid the influence of primes. A first pilot experiment used a subliminal-priming paradigm and replicated the contamination found following subtle supraliminal priming (Santos et al., 2012). Experiment 1 made a previous episode of stereotypic assembling highly accessible, immediately before subliminal priming, and found that the primed information ceased to have an effect. Experiment 2 manipulated the diagnosticity of a previous stereotype-assembling episode for stereotype assessment. When the previous assembling episode was perceived as no longer diagnostic of one’s beliefs, contamination occurred. The avoidance of mental contamination depends on the accessiblity of stereotypic beliefs but also on its assumed diagnosticity. The working stereotype assembled seems to reflect a compromise between contextual contamination and belief monitoring, setting a functional limit on cognitive malleability of stereotypes.

2017-06Journal article

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