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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 10, 1310-1321 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167204264661
© 2004 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Effects of the Activation of Affective Information on Stereotyping: When Sadness Increases Stereotype Use

François Ric

University of Paris 5, francois.ric{at}univ-paris5.fr

Two studies explored the impact of mere activation of affective information on the use of stereotypes in social judgment. These studies provided consistent results showing that the activation of information related to sadness increases reliance on stereotypes, whereas the activation of information related to happiness decreases it. These results were obtained in the absence of affective state changes among the participants and with the use of two different priming procedures (Study 1: scrambled sentences, Study 2: subliminal priming) and two different judgment tasks (Study 1: impression formation, Study 2: guilt judgment). Complementing the informational view of affective states, it is suggested that affective information of which people are not conscious activates behavioral tendencies of approach or of avoidance associated with the related emotion.

Key Words: affective states • emotion • stereotyping • judgment • information processing


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