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| Able-bodied person’s Automatic Behavioral Tendency Towards Physically Disabled Persons and its Plasticity |
| ZHOU Yan-yan1, MA Ting1,2, ZHANG Feng1 |
| 1. Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; 2. Zhejiang Teaching and Research Section, Hangzhou 310012, China |
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Abstract The present study chose twenty photographs describing physically normal and disabled people (10 able-bodied & 10 disabled) as category stimuli which were displayed in rectangle and oval once, to explore public’s automatic behavioral tendency towards the physically disabled persons by the Pull/Push Task (PPT) (experiment 1) and the priming paradigm of the disabled persons’ positive behavior information (experiment 2). Results revealed: firstly, participants showed significantly automatic avoidance tendency towards the disabled persons; secondly, positive information did not only improve the public’s automatic approach tendency towards the disabled, but also weakened their automatic avoidance tendency towards the targets. These results suggest that the public show avoidance behavior towards the disabled automatically, and exposing disabled person’s positive behavior can reduce such tendency. Therefore, disseminating the positive information about disable persons universally could improve public’s automatic approach tendency towards the disabled persons.
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Published: 09 November 2018
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ZHOU Yan-yan,MA Ting,ZHANG Feng. Able-bodied person’s Automatic Behavioral Tendency Towards Physically Disabled Persons and its Plasticity[J]. 应用心理学, 2019, 25(2): 109-121.
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http://www.appliedpsy.cn/EN/Y2019/V25/I2/109 |
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