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Wulff, Liliane and Scharf, Sophie E. (2020). Unpacking stereotype influences on source-monitoring processes: What mouse tracking can tell us. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol., 87. SAN DIEGO: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. ISSN 1096-0465

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Abstract

The goal of this study was to understand the cognitive dynamics of stereotype influences on source monitoring employing mouse tracking. By continuously recording cursor movements, we examined how stereotypical knowledge influences decision uncertainty when processing and later remembering stereotype-consistent and -inconsistent exemplars of the age categories of young and old. In a source-monitoring task, participants (N = 60) learned age-stereotype consistent or -inconsistent statements from two different-aged sources (young vs. old person) that they attributed to their original sources via mouse clicks in a later memory test. Our results showed that individuals experienced cognitive conflict during source attributions depending on both the correctness of the source response and whether the original source was (in)consistent with the stereotype of the respective age group reflected in the statement. This pattern of results was supplemented by the analysis of prototypical mouse-trajectory clusters. Modeling individual source-monitoring processes revealed that individuals' experienced conflict was less pronounced when they remembered the source and was unrelated to guessing resulting from memory failure. These results highlight the benefits of combining cognitive modeling and process-tracing techniques to unpack the mechanisms behind social influences on source monitoring. The methodology of mouse tracking illuminated the role of stereotypes in the underlying cognitive processes during source attributions that is not evident from discrete categorical responses. For designed counter-stereotypical interventions, process-tracing methods may also be used to test their effectiveness on cognitive processes involved in source monitoring.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Wulff, Liliane UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Scharf, Sophie E. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-343344
DOI:	10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103917
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Exp. Soc. Psychol.
Volume:	87
Date:	2020
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN DIEGO
ISSN:	1096-0465
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language AGE STEREOTYPES; SOURCE MEMORY; SCHEMATIC KNOWLEDGE; TREE MODELS; CONTINUOUS DYNAMICS; RESPONSE DYNAMICS; RACE PERCEPTION; OLDER-ADULTS; TIME-COURSE; REVEAL Multiple languages Psychology, Social Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34334