STONE ET AL 2010

Effect of
stereotyes
Aim
The aim of Stone et al 2010
was to investigate the effect
of streotypes ( a type of
schema ) had on the
judgment of basketball
players
Participants
the participants of the study
were college aged. The
stereotype was that white
players are more smart and
black players are more
athletic.

The procedure
The participants listened to a radio broadcast
about a basketball game. Before the recording,
they were shown a picture of the basketball player
and his name.
half of the participants were shown the black
man and half were shown the white man

IV: race of the man in the photo

DV: perception of the player’s
strengths during the basketball
game 90%
Results
The participants who were shown the picture of the black basketball player
deemed him to be more athletic and said that he played a better game,
where as the participants who were shown the picture of the white basket
ball player deemed that he showed more basketball intelligence and hustle

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