Social cognition: thinking categorically about others.

By C. N. Macrae, Galen Bodenhausen. Annual Review of Psychology, 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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What's in a Forename? Cue Familiarity and Stereotypical Thinking ☆ ☆☆ ★ (2002, background): “Contrasting this viewpoint, however, recent research has painted a considerably less pessimistic picture of mental functioning, with stereotyping characterized as a flexible and versatile process that is regulated by a variety of forces (see Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000 ).”
There’s More Than Meets the Eye: Facial Appearance and Evaluations of Transsexual People (2010, background): “One theoretical framework for understanding and explaining prejudice toward transpeople is social categorization (Macrae and Bodenhausen 2000).”
Social Categorization and the Perception of Social Groups (2012, background): “Thus, the likelihood of categorical (vs individuated) social impressions also increases to the extent that any variable constrains the perceiver’s attentional capacity, motivation for effortful processing, or opportunity to deliberate (for a review, see Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000).”
Undermining the Corrective Effects of Media‐Based Political Fact Checking? The Role of Contextual Cues and Naïve Theory (2013, background): “For example, priming a racial category evokes many of the same cultural stereotypes—including naïve theories about race and behavior—regardless of the levels of prejudice the individual exhibits (see Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000).”
Impressions at the intersection of ambiguous and obvious social categories: Does gay + Black = likable? (2011, background): “Research has traditionally examined how perceptually obvious categories such as race, gender, and age influence the impressions people form about others (Brewer, 1988; Fiske & Neuberg, 1990; Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000).”
The silence of the library: environment, situational norm, and social behavior. (2003, background): “These associations streamline the social perception process, and help us to understand other people's behavior in order to respond with an appropriate action of one's own (Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000).”
The Face of Crime: Viewers' Memory of Race‐Related Facial Features of Individuals Pictured in the News (2004, background): “…that results in the categorization of an individual into a given social group (e.g., White, Black, male, female), with the stereotypes associated with the category then applied (Brewer, 1996; Fiske, 1998; Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000; Stangor, Lynch, Duan, & Glass, 1992; Taylor & Falcone, 1982).”
Reintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research (2011, background): “This integration can be especially useful in highlighting the deeply contextualized nature of the relationships between social cognitive processes, accuracy, and adaptive social behavior.”
Intergroup Perception and Cognition: An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Social Categorization (2017, background): “…approach to social categorization assumed a " feedforward " process, whereby early perceptual cues of stimuli are spontaneously extracted and lead in a bottom-up manner to a single, dominant categorization of the stimulus (for review, see Freeman & Johnson, 2016; Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000).”
Intergroup bias. (2002, background): “A controversial idea is that individuals can be made to suppress their biases (see Macrae & Bodenhausen 2000, Monteith et al. 1998).”
Mental construal and the emergence of assimilation and contrast effects: The inclusion/exclusion model. (2010, background): “This is the familiar case of stereotyping effects, which reflect that information about the superordinate category is included in the representation of the target exemplar (for reviews see Fiske et al., 1999; Kunda 1999; Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000).”
Explanation and understanding (2015, background): “The literature is far too vast to consider here in detail (see, e.g., Macrae & Bodenhausen 2000, Malle 2004), but the following point merits mention.”
An fMRI study of violations of social expectations: When people are not who we expect them to be (2011, neutral): “Although the behavioral responses required of the participants did not reveal any differences in reaction time across conditions, social cognitive investigations have repeatedly found evidence of increased processing demands required by socially incongruent targets (Fiske and Neuberg, 1990; Macrae a”
A face with a cue: exploring the inevitability of person categorization (2007, background): “As one would expect of such a dispute, the views expressed by the opposing camps were decidedly polarized (see Bargh, 1999; Blair, 2002; Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000).”
Natural ambiguities: Racial categorization of multiracial individuals (2012, background): “Such categorization is a precursor to impression formation and several intergroup phenomena, such as stereotyping, perceptions of out-group homogeneity, and prejudice (Brewer, 1988; Fiske & Neuberg, 1990; Macrae & Bodenhausen, 2000).”