A recent Cognitive Daily post pointed me to an interesting-looking study on implicit stereotyping. It argues that executive function (the ability to control our actions) may play some role in implicit racism. I should read the actual article someday. Here is the reference:

Payne, B.K. (2005). Conceptualizing control in social cognition: How executive functioning modulates the functioning of automatic stereotyping. Personality and Social Psychology, 89(4), 488-503.

This may be useful for me in stuff I’ve been thinking about involving individual differences as moderators of implicit biases (or other implicit stuff). By my constant use of the word “stuff”, it’s obvious that this is stuff I’m only beginning to think about right now.