Relationships between the race implicit association test and other measures of implicit and explicit social cognition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The race-based Implicit Association Test (IAT) was proposed to measure individual differences in implicit racial bias subsumed within social cognition. In recent years, researchers have debated the theoretical tenets underpinning the IAT, questioning whether performance on this task: (1) measures implicit attitudes that operate automatically outside of conscious awareness; (2) reflects individual differences in social cognition; and (3) can predict social behavior. One way to better address these research questions is to assess whether the race-IAT correlates with other implicit processes that are subsumed within social cognition.

Aims

The current study assessed whether the race-IAT was related to other commonly used individual difference measures of implicit (and

SUBMITTER: Pennington CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10415041 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature