The impact of social categorization and emotions on person impressions: neural components.

The crucial question is how social categorization (membership of a group, for example: racial) intervenes with the cognitive process of the individual judgments, and in which degree this process is determined by social emotions of disgust and threat. In todays social neuroscience literature there is research on personal impressions in a social environment, independent of some social context. Both the impact on social categorization as social emotions on personal impression are confirmed by Classic study. The combination of both has not yet been studied with help of new methods as EEG en fMRI.