RACIAL PREJUDICE AND STEREOTYPE ACTIVATION

The main goal of the present study was to investigate the interrelatio nships among prejudice and the endorsement and activation of cultural stereotypes. The endorsement of stereotypes was examined using an attr ibution estimate measure. Stereotype activation was examined using apr onunciation task with short and long stimulus onset asynchronies (300 ms and 2000 ms) to induce automatic and controlled processing. As expe cted, high prejudiced participants endorsed cultural stereotypes to a greater extent than low prejudiced participants. Furthermore, for high prejudiced participants, Black category labels facilitated stereotype activation under automatic and controlled processing conditions. For low prejudiced participants, no evidence of differential activation wa s found for stereotypes relative to non-stereotypes as a function of c ategory labels under either processing condition. In addition, stereot ype activation was correlated with individual differences in stereotyp e endorsement.