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A Unified Theory of Implicit Attitudes, Stereotypes, Self-Esteem, and Self-Concept

Year: 2016

Type: preprint

Abstract: This theoretical integration of social psychology’s main cognitive and affective constructs was shaped by three influences: (a) recent widespread interest in automatic and implicit cognition, (b) development of the Implicit Association Test (IAT: Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998), and (c) social psychology's consistency theories of the 1950s – especially Heider's (1958) balance theory. The balanced identity design is introduced as a method to test correlational predictions of the theory. Data obtained with this method revealed that predicted consistency patterns were strongly apparent in the data for implicit (IAT) measures, but not in those for parallel explicit (self-report) measures. Two additional not-yet-tested predictions of the theory are described.

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/xgswc_v1

Authors: Anthony G. Greenwald, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Laurie Ann Rudman, Shelly D. Farnham, Brian A. Nosek, Deborah S. Mellott

Institutions: University of Washington, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Center for Open Science, University of Virginia

Language: English

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health

Awards: Implicit Attitudes, Implicit Stereotypes, and Prejudice, Collaborative Research: Implicit Social Cognition, G4045998085, Implicit Attitudes, Implicit Stereotypes, and Predjudice, Collaborative Research: Implicit Social Cognition

OpenAlex ID: W4409656751

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