PATRICIA
G. DEVINE
Professor
University of Wisconsin
Department of Psychology
1202 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-2815
pgdevine@wisc.edu |
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| Past research has shown that stereotypes
of Black people come to mind automatically
for both high- and low-prejudice people, but
that that low-prejudice people tend to control
these stereotypes from influencing their behavior.
However, our recent work has shown that some
low-prejudice people are better at controlling
automatic stereotypes than others – and
we want to know why. We are currently testing
the idea that some low-prejudice people are
better than others at controlling race bias
because, in addition to automatically activated
Black stereotypes, they have automatic thoughts
of egalitarian (e.g., non-prejudice) beliefs.
In a sense, the automatic egalitarian thoughts
counteract the automatic stereotypes, causing
conflict between response tendencies, and thus
more careful (and less prejudiced) behavior. |
 Jessica
Whitehead: I have previously done research
examining hostile and benevolently
sexist beliefs. I explored
how priming traditional gender ideologies can
affect people’s
endorsement of societal structure,
and more specifically the gender hierarchy.
Currently, I am interested in investigating
topics concerning stereotype regulation, and
people’s motivations
to respond in non prejudiced
ways. |
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