Social axioms and implicit attitudes about people with disabilities

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2012.40.2.251
Keywords:
social behavior, social psychology, social axiom, fate control, implicit attitude, people with disabilities
Abstract

We investigated the relationship between social axioms and implicit attitudes toward people with disabilities. Participants were 101 undergraduate students (male = 30, female = 71) from a university in Beijing. Social axioms were assessed using the Social Axioms Survey (Leung et al., 2002) and implicit attitudes were measured using the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998). Data analysis showed that the social axiom dimension of fate control was negatively related to implicit attitudes toward people with disabilities. None of the other 4 social axiom dimensions was found to be correlated with implicit attitudes.

Author Biographies
  1. Lili Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Institute of Psychology and Graduate School
  2. Shuang Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Institute of Psychology and Graduate School
  3. Mingjie Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Institute of Psychology and Graduate School
  4. Jianxin Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Institute of Psychology and Graduate School
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Vol. 40 No. 2 (2012)
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