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Tested the hypothesis that the degree of association between one concept (or category) and the instances of the other presented concept influenced reaction time (RT) on the Implicit Association Test discrimination tasks. In an experiment with 41 female college students, the instances in the target categories, male and female names, were kept constant. The adjectives in the evaluative categories were manipulated. Either the pleasant adjectives were female-associated and the unpleasant adjectiv...Tested the hypothesis that the degree of association between one concept (or category) and the instances of the other presented concept influenced reaction time (RT) on the Implicit Association Test discrimination tasks. In an experiment with 41 female college students, the instances in the target categories, male and female names, were kept constant. The adjectives in the evaluative categories were manipulated. Either the pleasant adjectives were female-associated and the unpleasant adjectives were male-associated, or vice versa. Results show these stereotypic associations did exert a substantial influence on the size of the IAT effect. This finding is seen to cast doubt on the assumption that the IAT effect may be interpreted as a pure measure of the degree of association between concepts.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Psychologie