The Stereotype Behavior Effects In The Dual Social Identity

The research of stereotype emerge in an endless stream, including studies of theinherent mechanism, inhibit or change the mode of stereotype and so on, but the researchof behavioral effect of stereotype is relatively small, even there are research of stereotypebehavior effect, the research on how to overcome the negative behavioral effect ofstereotype and the effective use of positive behavior effect are less. This article attempts toinvestigate these effects. In the field of social cognition, in recent years there is more andmore research care about this field, especially about the relationship of social identity andstereotype. This study attempts to explore stereotype effects under the dual social identity.Study1used an2×2completely randomized experimental design of two factors todiscuss the behavioral effect of stereotype on female social identity implicit priming andmathematical degree of recognition in mathematics test task. We found that there was nodifference on the grade of mathematics of the person with high mathematical identity, butthe performance of the subject with low mathematical identities are susceptible to theeffects of stereotype, as the mathematics performance decline. The results also show thatthe vocabulary of "female" have effect on the inherent stereotype, that is to say, thestereotype exists generally, i.e.Study2used a3×2completely randomized experimental design of two factors toinvestigete the cognitive resources consumption and working memory capacity in the dualsocial identity. We have found these two results of the prime experiments, but the intrinsicmechanism of it is needs to be found. The results show that the cognitive resources andworking memory of the individual with low mathematical identity is lower in the femaleidentity priming condition, but the individual with high mathematical identity is unaffected.In the science identity priming situation, the cognitive resources and working memorywere not affected in any level of mathematics recognition The results of this study show that the arouse of the stereotype reduced the cognitive resources and working memory, sodoes the execution resources need for competence in the field operation, resulting in thecorresponding negative behavior effect.Study3attempts to use a4×2completely randomized experimental design of twofactors to futher explore the dual social identity priming condition and attempts to explorethe inhibition of behavior of the effects of negative stereotype, namely the inhibit mode ofthe stereotype threat. We will see whether the positive behavior effects of the stereotypewill disappear by adding a positive social identity. We found that when the female identityis aroused by implicit stimulate, the stereotype threat effect in math scores will be there;and in the double identity, subjects showed no stereotype threat effect. The results of theexperimental show that the negative behavior effect of the stereotype will disappear whenwe add a positive social identity.In brief, stereotype has negative threat effects to cognitive performance, but thepositive social identity can effectively suppress the threat effect, and its possiblemechanism of inhibition effect may be in line with memory resources and distributionmode.