Stereotype activation and control of race bias: cognitive control of inhibition and its impairment by alcohol

Bruce D Bartholow; Cheryl L Dickter; Marc A Sestir

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.90.2.272

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Stereotype activation and control of race bias: cognitive control of inhibition and its impairment by alcohol

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Stereotype activation and control of race bias: cognitive control of inhibition and its impairment by alcohol

Bruce D Bartholow, Cheryl L Dickter and Marc A Sestir

Journal of personality and social psychology, Vol.90(2), pp.272-287

02/01/2006

DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.2.272

PMID: 16536651

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Abstract

Two experiments tested the hypothesis that alcohol increases race-biased responding via impairment of self-regulatory cognitive control. Participants consumed either a placebo or alcohol and then made speeded responses to stereotypic trait words presented after White and Black face primes while behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) data were recorded. Alcohol did not affect stereotype activation in either experiment. Experiment 2 showed that alcohol significantly impaired the ability to inhibit race-biased responses but did not reliably influence control of counterstereotypic responses. This disinhibition appears driven by impairment of regulative cognitive control, as indexed by amplitude of the negative slow wave ERP component. These findings suggest that controlling racial bias can be a function of effective implementation of basic self-regulatory processes in addition to the motivational processes identified in other research.

Adult

African Continental Ancestry Group - psychology

Alcohol Drinking - adverse effects

Alcohol Drinking - physiopathology

Alcohol Drinking - psychology

Alcoholic Intoxication - physiopathology

Alcoholic Intoxication - psychology

Association Learning - drug effects

Cerebral Cortex - drug effects

Cerebral Cortex - physiopathology

Contingent Negative Variation

Cues

Dose-Response Relationship, Drug

Electroencephalography

European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology

Face

Female

Humans

Inhibition (Psychology)

Internal-External Control

Male

Pattern Recognition, Visual - drug effects

Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology

Prejudice

Race Relations

Reaction Time - drug effects

Reaction Time - physiology

Semantics

Stereotyping

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Title: Subtitle: Stereotype activation and control of race bias: cognitive control of inhibition and its impairment by alcohol
Creators: Bruce D Bartholow - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cheryl L Dickter - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Marc A Sestir - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of personality and social psychology, Vol.90(2), pp.272-287
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.2.272
PMID: 16536651
NLM abbreviation: J Pers Soc Psychol
ISSN: 0022-3514
eISSN: 1939-1315
Grant note: name: Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation
Language: English
Date published: 02/01/2006
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984446407602771

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