When threat matters: Self-regulation, threat salience, and stereotyping
| dc.contributor.author | Stroessner, Steven J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Scholer, Abigail A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marx, David M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Weisz, Bradley M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-02T17:53:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-02-02T17:53:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-07-01 | |
| dc.description | The final publication is available at Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.03.003 © 2015. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Four experiments examined whether information implying imminent threat to safety would interact with regulatory focus (Higgins, 1997) to affect the utilization of threat-relevant stereotypes. Because information suggesting imminent danger is more relevant to the safety goals of prevention-focused individuals than the advancement goals of promotion-focused individuals, utilization of threat-relevant stereotypes was expected to increase under such conditions only under prevention focus. Support for this prediction was obtained in four distinct and socially important domains. Using scenarios describing a violent crime committed by an African-American male (Experiment 1) or a petty crime committed by an undocumented immigrant (Experiment 2), prevention-focused individuals made judgments consistent with stereotypes when threat was perceived to be high rather than low. In studies that manipulated the stereotypicality of the target in a terrorism scenario (Experiments 3 & 4), prevention-focused individuals were more likely to endorse scrutinizing a stereotypical compared with a non-stereotypical target when terrorism was described as an increasing problem. Implications for models of stereotyping, self-regulation, and responding to threat are discussed. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | NSF Grant [1147779] | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.03.003 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12983 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | Regulatory Focus | en |
| dc.subject | Self-Regulation | en |
| dc.subject | Safety Threat | en |
| dc.subject | Stereotyping | en |
| dc.title | When threat matters: Self-regulation, threat salience, and stereotyping | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Stroessner, S. J., Scholer, A. A., Marx, D. M., & Weisz, B. M. (2015). When threat matters: Self-regulation, threat salience, and stereotyping. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 59, 77–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.03.003 | en |
| uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Arts | en |
| uws.contributor.affiliation2 | Psychology | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Reviewed | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Faculty | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |