STEREOTYPING AND ATTITUDINAL EFFECTS UNDER TIME PRESSURE

This paper reports an experiment in which the influence of time pressu re, the social category of the target person, and emotional responses on impression formation and recognition memory was studied. It was hyp othesized that under time pressure, subjects using their stereotype wo uld process information about an outgroup target more easily than info rmation about an ingroup target, would judge these targets more differ entially, and would base their judgments of the outgroup target more o n their attitudes than in a condition without time pressure. These hyp otheses were to a large extent sustained. Results are discussed in ter ms of current models of impression formation and attitude functioning.