Superior cognitive abilities are generally associated with positive outcomes such as academic achievement and social mobility. Here, we explore the darker side of cognitive ability, highlighting robust links between pattern detection and stereotyping. Across 6 studies, we find that superior pattern detectors efficiently learn and use stereotypes about social groups. This pattern holds across explicit (Studies 1 and 2), implicit (Studies 2 and 4), and behavioral measures of stereotyping (Study 3). We also find that superior pattern detectors readily update their stereotypes when confronted with new information (Study 5), making them particularly susceptible to counterstereotype training (Study 6). Pattern detection skills therefore equip people to act as naïve empiricists who calibrate their stereotypes to match incoming information. These findings highlight novel effects of individual aptitudes on social-cognitive processes. (PsycINFO Database Record

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出色的模式检测器可以有效地学习，激活，应用和更新社交定型观念。

出色的认知能力通常与积极成果相关，例如学业成就和社交活动。在这里，我们探索认知能力的阴暗面，强调模式检测与定型之间的牢固联系。在6项研究中，我们发现出色的模式检测器可以有效地学习和使用关于社会群体的刻板印象。这种模式适用于显式（研究1和2），隐式（研究2和4）以及刻板印象的行为量度（研究3）。我们还发现，当遇到新信息时，高级模式检测器可以轻松地更新其刻板印象（研究5），使其特别容易受到反刻板印象训练的影响（研究6）。因此，模式检测技能使人们能够扮演幼稚的经验主义者，以校准其刻板印象以匹配传入的信息。这些发现强调了个人才能对社会认知过程的新颖影响。（PsycINFO数据库记录