Correia dos Santos, Ana SofiaMoreira, SérgioGarcia-Marques, Leonel2024-02-282024-02-282006Dos Santos, S. C., Garcia-Marques, L., & Moreira, S. (2006). Stereotypes: From an illusory stability to an illusory belief account. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 28(28), 732-737.1069-7977http://hdl.handle.net/10451/63008The categorization literature has shown that concepts are unstable and context-dependent knowledge structures (e.g., Barsalou, 1987; 1989). Three studies show similar findings for stereotypes. Study 1 revealed only moderate levels of within-participants stability in the content of social categories. Study 2 showed that irrelevant attributes of social groups are incorporated into the groups’ stereotype as long as they are contextually salient. Study 3 provided preliminary evidence suggesting that stereotype context sensitivity may be accounted for a belief illusion account.engStereotypesConceptual instabilitySocial cognitionjournal article2024-01-27cv-prod-3590984