Research article summary (published 28 Feb 2008):

Implicit attitude generalization occurs immediately; explicit attitude generalization takes time.

Full Abstract

People are able to explicitly resist using knowledge about one person to evaluate another person from the same group. After learning about positive and negative behaviors performed by one individual from each of two different groups, participants were introduced briefly to new individuals from the groups. Implicit evaluations of the original individuals readily generalized to the new individuals; explicitly, participants resisted such generalization. Days later, both implicit and explicit evaluations of the original individuals generalized to the new individuals. The results suggest that associative links (e.g., shared group membership) are sufficient for implicit attitude generalization, but deliberative logic (e.g., individual group members are not necessarily the same) can reduce explicit generalization by association. When knowledge distinguishing who did what is unavailable, such as after forgetting, associative knowledge provides the basis of explicit evaluation. We conclude that a simple association linking one individual to another can produce implicit attitude generalization immediately and explicit attitude generalization eventually.

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Author information

Author/s: Ranganath, Kate A (KA); Nosek, Brian A (BA);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA. ranganath(-atsign-)virginia.edu

Grants: R01 MH68447 (Agency:United States NIMH)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Journal: Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS (Psychol Sci), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Mar; vol 19 (issue 3) : pp 249-54

Dates: Created 2008/03/04; Completed 2008/04/30;

PMID: 18315797, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Adult Association Attitude Decision Making Feedback, Psychological Female Generalization, Response Humans Individuality

Individuality Interpersonal Relations Judgment Male Mental Recall Middle Aged Personality Inventory Social Behavior Social Identification

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