scholarly journals The role of explicit categorization in the Implicit Association Test.

2020 ◽  
Vol 149 (5) ◽  
pp. 809-827
Author(s):  
Motonori Yamaguchi ◽  
Geoffrey Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Implicit Association

scholarly journals Improving Empirical Scrutiny of the Habitus: A Plea for Incorporating Implicit Association Tests in Sociological Research

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 967-976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Schaap ◽  
Jeroen van der Waal ◽  
Willem de Koster
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Association Tests ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Conventional Methods ◽  
Social Scientific

Many studies invoke the concept of the Bourdieusian habitus to account for a plethora of stratified patterns uncovered by conventional social-scientific methods. However, as a stratum-specific, embodied and largely non-declarative set of dispositions, the role of the habitus in those stratified patterns is typically not adequately scrutinised empirically. Instead, the habitus is often attributed theoretically to an empirically established link between stratification indicators and an outcome of interest. In this research note, we argue that combining conventional methods in stratification research with latency-based measures such as the Implicit Association Test enables better measurement of the habitus. This sociological application of Implicit Association Tests enables researchers to: (1) identify empirically the existence of different habitus among different social strata; and (2) determine their role in the stratified patterns to which they have thus far been attributed theoretically.

Prejudice Implicit Association Test Effects

2010 ◽  
Vol 218 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Popa-Roch ◽  
Florian Delmas
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Association Tests ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
Group Preferences

Self-concept is accessible information that can be used when facing a demanding task. Based on findings suggesting that effects observed in Implicit Association Tests (IATs) could be partially explained by the procedural features of the task, we investigated the role of participants’ self-inclusion in target categories for group IATs. We propose that IAT constraints lead participants to use self-relevant heuristics related to their membership of target categories in order to respond rapidly, which contributes to IAT group preferences. Thus positive IAT effects should dramatically diminish if participants were induced not to use self-related heuristics. Study 1 showed that when mapping outgroup names and idiosyncratic characteristics of participants onto the same category during the IAT task, the IAT effect no longer occurs. Study 2 replicated these findings when associating outgroup-participants’ idiosyncratic characteristics prior to the completion of the standard IAT. Therefore inhibiting the use of self-related heuristics reduces IAT effects. The implications of our results for the construct validity of prejudice IATs are discussed.

Measuring Task-Switching Ability in the Implicit Association Test

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitja D. Back ◽  
Stefan C. Schmukle ◽  
Boris Egloff
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Task Switching ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Stability Studies ◽  
Control Task ◽  
Good Internal Consistency

Abstract. Recently, the role of method-specific variance in the Implicit Association Test (IAT) was examined ( McFarland & Crouch, 2002 ; Mierke & Klauer, 2003 ). This article presents a new content-unspecific control task for the assessment of task-switching ability within the IAT methodology. Study 1 showed that this task exhibited good internal consistency and stability. Studies 2-4 examined method-specific variance in the IAT and showed that the control task is significantly associated with conventionally scored IAT effects of the IAT-Anxiety. Using the D measures proposed by Greenwald, Nosek, and Banaji (2003 ), the amount of method-specific variance in the IAT-Anxiety could be reduced. Possible directions for future research are outlined.

The Role of Self-Involvement in Shifting IAT Effects

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 348-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maddalena Marini ◽  
Sandro Rubichi ◽  
Giuseppe Sartori
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
Association Test ◽  
The Self ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Implicit Measures ◽  
Explicit Measures

Explicit measures can be affected by self-involvement in processing of a message (Johnson & Eagly, 1989). Here, we show that self-involvement in a counter-stereotypical message also influences implicit measures such as the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998). In our study, racial attitudes changed only after reading a counter-stereotypical scenario in which participants were asked to imagine themselves as victims of an assault as opposed to simply imagine an assault to a person. This shift did not depend on evaluative instructions and it was transient as it was no longer present after 1 week. These results suggest that the self-involvement might be an important factor in shifting implicit measures.

Clarifying the Role of the “Other” Category in the Self-Esteem IAT

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Pinter ◽  
Anthony G. Greenwald
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Association Test ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Second Category

Abstract. A. Karpinski (2004 ) recently criticized Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures of self-esteem, arguing that their measurements of self-associations are compromised by their contrasting self with a putatively extremely negative second category, the nonspecific other. The present data show, to the contrary, that the nonspecific other category in the self-esteem IAT is near neutral in valence. Validity of the self-esteem IAT is most appropriately assessed by examining its correlations with conceptually related measures. That has been done in several previous studies that are reviewed here. The nonspecific other category is only one of several choices for representing the concept of other in self-esteem IATs. Choice of the appropriate other category to contrast with self in self-esteem IATs should be guided by the needs of the research question being addressed.

Men Are Hierarchical, Women Are Egalitarian: An Implicit Gender Stereotype

2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Schmid Mast
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Gender Stereotype ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Two Samples

The goal of the present study was to provide empirical evidence for the existence of an implicit hierarchy gender stereotype indicating that men are more readily associated with hierarchies and women are more readily associated with egalitarian structures. To measure the implicit hierarchy gender stereotype, the Implicit Association Test (IAT, Greenwald et al., 1998) was used. Two samples of undergraduates (Sample 1: 41 females, 22 males; Sample 2: 35 females, 37 males) completed a newly developed paper-based hierarchy-gender IAT. Results showed that there was an implicit hierarchy gender stereotype: the association between male and hierarchical and between female and egalitarian was stronger than the association between female and hierarchical and between male and egalitarian. Additionally, men had a more pronounced implicit hierarchy gender stereotype than women.

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