THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

The impact of the activation of positive and negative components of an ethnic stereotype on judgments of responsibility for both positive an d negative stereotypic behaviors was considered. Overall, stereotype a ctivation biased judgments in a stereotype-consistent manner, across b oth positive and negative scenarios. Generalization of these judgments to more global trait perceptions of the target was limited to the neg ative scenario. Results are discussed in terms of both the use of ster eotypes as inferential shortcuts and in-group favoritism mechanisms.