59 - The Relationship of LGB Bias and False Memories for Gender and Orientation Stereotypes.
Description/Abstract/Artist Statement
Stereotypes are commonly held beliefs about the traits and behaviors of groups. Those who are minorities, receive many negative and harmful stereotypes from others. Understanding the ways these types of stereotypes are represented in memory and lead to biased judgments is important in understanding how stereotype information affects people's cognition and behavior. These negative views affect the minorities because when people are recalling a memory and they fill in the gaps with general information that they know. When the schematic information is not accurate people tend to remember information that was not originally present. These are called false memories. This affects minorities because people will use their stereotypes when they recall memories with the minorities and if the stereotypes are negative, it tends to create more false memories that are negative. One way to see how stereotypes affect the way that we live, think, and view others is to see how someone's memory can be altered when shown stereotypical information. The current study investigates whether stereotype consistent information leads to false memories, as it does in other schematic memory representations. In this study participants were presented stereotypical descriptive items describing a person who was randomly assigned a gender and sexual orientation, and performed a memory recognition task. Participants also completed a measure of LGB bias and social categorization tasks. This study can influence future research endeavors in order to mitigate the harmful influence of stereotypes and false memories on the LGBTQ+ community.
Faculty Advisor/Mentor
Ivan K. Ash
Faculty Advisor/Mentor Department
Psychology
College Affiliation
College of Sciences
Presentation Type
Poster
Disciplines
Cognitive Psychology | Social Psychology
59 - The Relationship of LGB Bias and False Memories for Gender and Orientation Stereotypes.
Stereotypes are commonly held beliefs about the traits and behaviors of groups. Those who are minorities, receive many negative and harmful stereotypes from others. Understanding the ways these types of stereotypes are represented in memory and lead to biased judgments is important in understanding how stereotype information affects people's cognition and behavior. These negative views affect the minorities because when people are recalling a memory and they fill in the gaps with general information that they know. When the schematic information is not accurate people tend to remember information that was not originally present. These are called false memories. This affects minorities because people will use their stereotypes when they recall memories with the minorities and if the stereotypes are negative, it tends to create more false memories that are negative. One way to see how stereotypes affect the way that we live, think, and view others is to see how someone's memory can be altered when shown stereotypical information. The current study investigates whether stereotype consistent information leads to false memories, as it does in other schematic memory representations. In this study participants were presented stereotypical descriptive items describing a person who was randomly assigned a gender and sexual orientation, and performed a memory recognition task. Participants also completed a measure of LGB bias and social categorization tasks. This study can influence future research endeavors in order to mitigate the harmful influence of stereotypes and false memories on the LGBTQ+ community.