CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sleepwalking, Mens Rea, Implicit-Association Test
Document Summary
Automatic processes and behaviour typically exhibit the following features: Lack of attention not conscious: not guided by intention. Contrasted with cognitive control processes that are typically effortful, attentive, conscious, and deliberate. Research suggests that much of our social behaviour is automatically guided by influences of which we are unaware: mimicry and social bonding. Being mimicked by a stranger enhances feelings of social harmony and perceived likability (bargh & chartrand 1999) Competency judgements made after being presented with faces for a few milliseconds successfully predicted outcomes of elections in which target people were candidates (ballew & todorov 2007) Priming with elderly stereotypes causes people to walk more slowly and judge hills to be steeper (bargh et al. Infants primed with pictures containing prosocial behaviour were more likely to help an experimenter who dropped their things. Automatic and unconscious states: often reflect embody negative stereotypes of stigmatized groups and result in discriminatory behaviour.