scholarly journals Cognitive Control and the Implicit Association Test: A Replication of Siegel, Dougherty, and Huber (2012)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Johnson ◽  
David Ampofo ◽  
Serra A Erbas ◽  
Alison Robey ◽  
Harry Calvert ◽  
...  

The implicit association test (IAT) is widely used to measure evaluative associations towards groups or the self but is influenced by other traits. Siegel, Dougherty, and Huber (2012, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology) found that manipulating cognitive control via false feedback (Study 3) changed the degree to which the IAT was related to cognitive control versus evaluative associations. We conducted two replications of this study and a mini meta-analysis. Null-hypothesis tests, meta-analysis, and a small telescope approach demonstrated weak to no support for the original hypotheses. We conclude that the original findings are unreliable and that both the original study and our replications do not provide evidence that manipulating cognitive control affects IAT scores.

2009 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony G. Greenwald ◽  
T. Andrew Poehlman ◽  
Eric Luis Uhlmann ◽  
Mahzarin R. Banaji

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 569-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedek Kurdi ◽  
Allison E. Seitchik ◽  
Jordan R. Axt ◽  
Timothy J. Carroll ◽  
Arpi Karapetyan ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
pp. 014616722091663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Cvencek ◽  
Andrew N. Meltzoff ◽  
Craig D. Maddox ◽  
Brian A. Nosek ◽  
Laurie A. Rudman ◽  
...  

This meta-analysis evaluated theoretical predictions from balanced identity theory (BIT) and evaluated the validity of zero points of Implicit Association Test (IAT) and self-report measures used to test these predictions. Twenty-one researchers contributed individual subject data from 36 experiments (total N = 12,773) that used both explicit and implicit measures of the social–cognitive constructs. The meta-analysis confirmed predictions of BIT’s balance–congruity principle and simultaneously validated interpretation of the IAT’s zero point as indicating absence of preference between two attitude objects. Statistical power afforded by the sample size enabled the first confirmations of balance–congruity predictions with self-report measures. Beyond these empirical results, the meta-analysis introduced a within-study statistical test of the balance–congruity principle, finding that it had greater efficiency than the previous best method. The meta-analysis’s full data set has been publicly archived to enable further studies of interrelations among attitudes, stereotypes, and identities.


2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 1369-1385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm Hofmann ◽  
Bertram Gawronski ◽  
Tobias Gschwendner ◽  
Huy Le ◽  
Manfred Schmitt

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedek Kurdi ◽  
Mahzarin R. Banaji

In the present report we provide a brief summary of the relationship between implicit and explicit measures of social cognition based on the meta-analytic database analyzed in more detail with respect to the relationship between measures of social cognition and measures of intergroup behavior by Kurdi et al. (2018). In the present analysis, a statistically significant but small relationship emerged between implicit and parallel explicit measures of attitudes, stereotypes, and identity. The implicit–explicit relationship was characterized by high levels of statistical heterogeneity, thus making moderator analyses necessary. Implicit and explicit measures were more highly correlated with each other in studies (a) of sexual orientation (relative to other target group categories), (b) using the improved scoring algorithm to index IAT performance, (c) conducted using real-world or online samples (relative to general, student, and preselected samples), (d) conducted using foreign samples (relative to U.S. samples), and (e) conducted by authors with higher levels of experience involving the Implicit Association Test. Other variables that, based on theoretical or practical considerations, may have been expected to produce an effect had no impact.


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