Social Groups Prioritize Selective Attention to Faces: How Social Identity Shapes Distractor Interference

Correction: Social Groups Prioritize Selective Attention to Faces: How Social Identity Shapes Distractor Interference

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161426.].

Social Groups Prioritize Selective Attention to Faces: How Social Identity Shapes Distractor Interference

Human faces automatically attract visual attention and this process appears to be guided by social group memberships. In two experiments, we examined how social groups guide selective attention toward in-group and out-group faces. Black and White participants detected a target letter among letter strings superimposed on faces (Experiment 1). White participants were less accurate on trials with ...

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Throughout human history, food consumption has been deeply tied to cultural groups. Past models of food preference have assumed that social concerns are dissociated from basic appetitive qualities—such as tastiness—in food choice. Providing a counter to this notion, we tested and found support for the novel idea that social identities can shape the evaluation of food pleasantness. Specifically,...

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How social identity shapes the working self-concept

• We were interested in testing the principle of functional antagonism. • When ingroups were salient, participants increased endorsement of group traits. • This effect mainly emerged for ingroups with high psychological utility. • The impact of personal traits, however, did not diminish during ingroup salience. • We did not find evidence for functional antagonism, but rather for adaption. a b s...