Age shifts discriminatory behavior from emotional to cognitive control

Evidence

Researchers also need to assess the circumstances under which evaluations influence behavior and vice versa. Under many circumstances behavior directed toward outgroup members is unrelated to evaluations. Some would say that this is due to poor measurement. But it is theoretically more interesting to hypothesize that with age, behavior comes under more cognitive control, whereas with younger children it is under emotional control. Perhaps differences in implicit and explicit attitudes arise in children when cognitions become strong and salient enough to diverge from emotions. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2031

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to implicit/explicit attitude divergence literature and to Milgrom-style questions about when behavior decouples from evaluation. — connects to: Age operates as an identity axis whose value depends on field and gender — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1185