A. Dijksterhuis et A. Vanknippenberg, TRAIT IMPLICATIONS AS A MODERATOR OF RECALL OF STEREOTYPE-CONSISTENT AND STEREOTYPE-INCONSISTENT BEHAVIORS, Personality & social psychology bulletin, 22(4), 1996, pp. 425-432
The assumption was tested that organization in memory of behavioral in
formation and recall depends on the descriptive relatedness of consist
ent information with inconsistent information. Subjects read stereotyp
e-consistent and stereotype-inconsistent behavioral descriptions imply
ing the same trait dimension (e.g., intelligent and stupid behaviors)
or different trait dimensions (e.g., intelligent and aggressive behavi
ors). It was hypothesized that if stereotype-inconsistent behaviors we
re associated with consistent behaviors because of shared trait implic
ations, these behaviors would be recalled better than stereotype-consi
stent behaviors. Conversely, it was expected that Sf subjects were pro
vided with inconsistent information that, because of differential trai
t implications, could not be associated with consistent information, i
nconsistent information would be stored separately, and recall of this
information would be worse. These predictions were corroborated in a
recall task. Conditional recall probabilities and clustering scores su
pported the proposed underlying organization of information in memory.