Do they see me as a person or just a woman? Stereotyping in the left and right cerebral hemispheres

Chavez, Clarissa Jayne; Carrillo, Kimberly Ann; Shaw, Moira; Zárate, Michael A.

doi:10.1037/e511092014-116

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“…This would facilitate right hemisphere perceptual processes and further inhibit social categorization processes. Extended contact also generally occurs over multiple days and often years, allowing time for memory consolidation processes to further strengthen the original encoding processes (Abel et al, 1995; Chavez, 2006). A more conscious awareness of the individual may dramatically alter the associated processes.…”

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Neurocognitive underpinnings of face perception: Further evidence of distinct person and group perception processes.

Zárate¹,

Stoever²,

MacLin³

et al. 2008

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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A model of social perception is presented and tested. The model is based on cognitive neuroscience models and proposes that the right cerebral hemisphere is more efficient at processing combinations of features whereas the left hemisphere is superior at identifying single features. These processes are hypothesized to produce person and group-based representations, respectively. Individuating or personalizing experience with an outgroup member was expected to facilitate the perception of the individuating features and inhibit the perception of the group features. In the presented study, participants were asked to learn about various ingroup and outgroup targets. Later, participants demonstrated that categorization response speeds to old targets were slower in the left hemisphere than in the right, particularly for outgroup members, as predicted. These findings are discussed for their relevance to models of social perception and stereotyping.

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confidence: 99%