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Category-Based and Individuating Processes as a Function of Information and Motivation: Evidence from Our Laboratory

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Stereotyping and Prejudice

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When do people form impressions of others based on the stereotypes and prejudices associated with the others’ category memberships, and when instead do they form impressions based on the others’ own particular individuating characteristics? Although people seem to think they should not respond to others on the basis of social group memberships, such category-based responses continue in subtle and not-so-subtle ways (e.g., Crosby, Bromley, & Saxe, 1980; Pettigrew & Martin, 1987). Moreover, while it is clear that people are also fully capable of individuating others, it appears that they do so only when certain conditions are met. Our intent in this chapter is to explicate these conditions and to address some of the factors that elicit them. In this manner, we hope to contribute to interventions aimed at reducing the incidence of impressions formed on the basis of stereotypes and prejudices.

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  1. School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, 69978, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  2. Psychologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, D-6900, Heidelberg 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    Carl F. Graumann

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, 20742, College Park, MD, USA

    Arie W. Kruglanski

  4. Psychologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, 7400, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Wolfgang Stroebe

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Fiske, S.T., Neuberg, S.L. (1989). Category-Based and Individuating Processes as a Function of Information and Motivation: Evidence from Our Laboratory. In: Bar-Tal, D., Graumann, C.F., Kruglanski, A.W., Stroebe, W. (eds) Stereotyping and Prejudice. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3582-8_4

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