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4160 ORAL<br />

Social psychology<br />

Chair: Hai-Sook Kim, Korea<br />

4160.1 The effects <strong>of</strong> ingroup and outgroup norms on the implicit and explicit attitudes toward<br />

an affirmative action policy for women, Hai-Sook Kim, Sang-Su Ahn, Ajou University, Korea,<br />

Republic Of<br />

Participants were presented with pro- or con-arguments regarding the affirmative action policy for<br />

women (Experiment 1) or Honam-region people (Experiment2) through the internet homepage<br />

board. These arguments were presumably written by ingroup or outgroup members, indicated by<br />

the sex <strong>of</strong> the name. Participants in the ingroup-equal norm condition showed more favorable<br />

attitude regarding the affirmative action policy than those in the ingroup-unequal norm condition.<br />

The outgroup norm did not generate any such effect. The analysis on the IAT effects suggested<br />

that male participants in the ingroup-equal norm condition showed significantly less prejudiced<br />

attitude than those in the ingroup-unequal norm condition.<br />

4160.2 Self-concept <strong>of</strong> persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) as compared with healthy<br />

people, David Wai Kwong Man, Sing Fai Tam, Department <strong>of</strong> Rehabilitation, The Hong Kong<br />

Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China<br />

The present study compared the self-concepts <strong>of</strong> 64 Hong Kong Chinese with traumatic brain<br />

injury (TBI) with 80 healthy Hong Kong Chinese. They responded to a self-concept questionnaire<br />

that was developed by Tam and Watkins (1995) based on a hierarchical multidimensional<br />

self-concept model <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong Chinese with disabilities. It was found that TBI persons have<br />

statistically significantly lower means than healthy people in total self-concept, and other specific<br />

self-concepts (p

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