Explicit Categorization Goals Affect Attention-Related Processing of Race and Gender During Person Construal.

ABSTRACT: Faces are categorized by gender and race very quickly, seemingly without regard to perceivers' goals or motivations, suggesting an automaticity to these judgments that has downstream consequences for evaluations, stereotypes, and social interactions. The current study investigated the extent to which early neurocognitive processes involved in the categorization of faces vary when participants' tasks goals were to categorize faces by race or by gender. In contrast to previous findings, task-related differences were found, such that differentiation in the P2 event-related potential (ERP) according to perceived gender was facilitated by having an explicit task goal of categorizing faces by gender; however, the P2 was sensitive to race regardless of task goals. Use of principal components anal

SUBMITTER: Volpert-Esmond HI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7442203 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature