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PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 281-294Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206296101
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ego depletion; stereotypes; motivation; self-control; self-regulation
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH-65559] Funding Source: Medline
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Three longitudinal studies and one correlational study tested the hypothesis that increasing self-regulatory strength by regular self-regulatory exercise would reduce the intrapsycbic costs of suppressing stereotypes. Participants tried to resist using stereotypes while describing or talking to a stimulus person. Participants whose habitual motivation to suppress stereotypes was low exhibited impaired Stroop and anagram performance after the suppression task, presumably because of self-regulatory depletion (i.e., a reduction of self-regulatory strength following prior use). Two weeks of self-regulation exercises (such as using one's nondominant hand or refraining from cursing) eliminated this effect. These findings indicate that self-regulatory exercise can improve resistance to self-regulatory depletion and, consequently, people can suppress stereotypes without suffering subsequent decrements in task performance.
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