Implicit social cognition through years: The Implicit Association Test at age 21
The
advent of implicit measures opened the access to processes of which people
might not be completely aware but that can still influence their attitudes,
preferences, and behaviors towards different objects. Among the existing
implicit measures, the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, &
Schwartz, 1998) is one of the most studied and used. The descriptive literature
review presented in this work was aimed at providing an overview of how the IAT
has been used from the year of its first introduction until current days.
Specifically, the main fields of application of the IAT, the specific topics
for which it has been used, and its concurrent use with other implicit measures
have been highlighted and described. When possible, information on the samples
on which the studies were carried out are reported. Results indicate an
on-going growth of the IAT in a constantly wider range of topics. The ability
of the IAT to overcome self-presentation biases and to access the implicit
aspects of attitudes have been particularly exploited for investigating biases
towards different out-groups, especially in sensitive contexts.
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Declaration of conflicts of interest
My co-authors and I declare no conflict of interestCorresponding author email
marinaottavia.epifania@phd.unipd.itLead author country
- Italy
Lead author job role
- PhD Student
Lead author institution
University of PadovaHuman Participants
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