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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 12, 1587-1597 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/01461672002612012
© 2000 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Affect and Stereotypic Thinking: A Test of the Mood-and-General-Knowledge Model

Silvia Krauth-Gruber

Université Paris V, krauth{at}psycho.univ-paris5.fr

François Ric

Université Paris V, ric{at}psycho.univ-paris5.fr

Happy, sad, or neutral participants evaluated the likelihood of a suspect’s guilt. The suspect’s membership was or was not stereotypically associated with the misconduct of which he was accused. Participants also were provided with specific case information that varied in its implications (ambiguous implying either the suspect’s guilt or innocence). The results show that when stereotypes clearly contradict specific information, happy people rely on the latter and no longer use stereotypes. The general assumption of a greater reliance on stereotypes under happiness was found to be restricted to "slight inconsistency." Overall, this study supports the mood-and-general-knowledge (MAGK) model. In contrast, even though sadness decreases reliance on stereotypes, it does not increase careful processing of incoming information, as is generally assumed in the literature.


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