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- From: Todd D Nelson <nelsont1@STUDENT.MSU.EDU>
- Subject: Stereotyping
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- Are you Prejudiced?
-
- Well, that may depend on the time of day.
-
- Just perusing through some of my advisor's prolific writings, and
- came across this one I thought you all would find interesting:
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- Bodenhausen (1990) assessed whether people who are 'morning persons' or
- 'night persons' evidenced any differences in their tendencies to
- assess guilt to stories of crimes committed by two types of people
- differing in name only. The subjects read that one of the alleged
- criminals had a hispanic name. The other suspect had a non-hispanic name.
- Probability estimates of judged guilt of the alleged
- criminal differed within groups between those who were asked to make the
- judgment at a time that mismatched their acrophase (peak performance
- time.....ie, the acrophase for morning people is morning). So, morning people
- who were asked to make the judgment in the afternoon/evening were MORE likely
- to stereotype and assess guilt to the hispanic suspect. Night people who
- were asked to make judgments in the morning also were more likely to
- stereotype, and believe that the hispanic suspect was most likely the
- criminal.
-
- Thus, Bodenhausen concluded that we all have regular variations in our
- motivation and ability to perform complex cognitive tasks, centering
- around our circadian rythems (ie, acrophases). As Allport (1954) said,
- "so long as we can get away with coarse overgeneralizations, we tend to
- do so....because it takes less effort."
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- Bodenhausen, G. V. (1990). Stereotypes as judgmental heuristics: Evidence of
- circadian variations in discrimination. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 1 (5),
- 319-322.
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-
- Best to all,
-
- Todd D. Nelson
- Michigan State University
- Email: NELSONT1@STUDENT.MSU.EDU (internet)
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