APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Reinforcement Learning of Implicit Prejudice: An Amplifying Effect of Resource Competition?
- David Schultner
University of Amsterdam - David Schultner
University of Amsterdam - David Amodio
New York University, University of Amsterdam - David Amodio
New York University - Benjamin Stillerman
New York University - Hanna Haas
University of Amsterdam - Björn Lindström
University of Amsterdam - Björn Lindström
Karolinska Institutet
Abstract
We tested whether perceived resource competition influences how participants (N=117) learn about members of two social groups, one stereotyped as positive and the other as negative, through repeated interactions in a reinforcement learning paradigm. Choice behavior suggests that competition amplifies the instrumental learning of implicit prejudice.
Social Cognition
