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DOI: 10.1177/0146167206296101 © 2007 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. Increasing Self-Regulatory Strength Can Reduce the Depleting Effect of Suppressing StereotypesFlorida State University, gailliot{at}psy.fsu.edu
Florida State University, plant{at}psy.fsu.edu
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Florida State University, baumeister{at}psy.fsu.edu Three longitudinal studies and one correlational study tested the hypothesis that increasing self-regulatory strength by regular self-regulatory exercise would reduce the intrapsychic costs of suppressing stereotypes. Participants tried to resist using stereotypes while describing or talking to a stimulus person. Participants whose habitual motivation to suppress stereotypes was low exhibited impaired Stroop and anagram performance after the suppression task, presumably because of self-regulatory depletion (i.e., a reduction of self-regulatory strength following prior use). Two weeks of self-regulation exercises (such as using one’s nondominant hand or refraining from cursing) eliminated this effect. These findings indicate that self-regulatory exercise can improve resistance to self-regulatory depletion and, consequently, people can suppress stereotypes without suffering subsequent decrements in task performance.
Key Words: ego depletion • stereotypes • motivation • self-control • self-regulation
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