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What Cognitive Mechanisms Do People Reflect on When They Predict IAT Scores?

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Research indicates that individuals can prospectively predict biases they will show on the implicit-association test (IAT). The present study uses the Quadruple process model to analyze data from Hahn, Judd, Hirsh, and Blair to investigate which cognitive mechanisms people reflect on when predicting their racial bias scores on the IAT. The Quadruple process model reveals that a combination of activated associations and self-regulatory control best explains what participants report when they predict their biases on the IAT. Furthermore, it appears to be specifically the total activation of positive attitudes toward Whites and negative attitudes toward minorities rather than negative attitudes toward minorities alone, that participants use to make their predictions.

Source: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

DOI: 10.1177/0146167218799307

Authors: Andrew M. Rivers, Adam Hahn

Institutions: University of British Columbia, University of California, Davis, University of Cologne

Language: English

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2897935774

FWCI: 1.951

Cites: 39

Cited by: 13

Related to: 10