External and internal motives to avoid prejudice produce different emotions as control cues

Evidence

Plant and Devine’s (1998) measures have also proved useful in identifying who is most likely to respond with prejudice and, hence, needs to engage controlled processes to overcome its pernicious, if often unintended, effects. In Amodio et al.’s (2004) research on preconscious control processes, Plant and Devine’s measures were used to identify who among the low-prejudice were good regulators of prejudice. Specifically, people high in internal but low on external motivation to respond without prejudice are generally effective in responding without prejudice, whereas people high on both motives are much more prone to responding with prejudice (Devine et al., 2002). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2124

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the vault’s contact-theory reassessment thread — internal vs external motivation predicts who actually regulates prejudice, a causal variable beyond mere exposure.
• QUESTION: Why does high external motivation interfere with otherwise-effective internal regulation? The authors flag this as unresolved.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2124