Many people believe that we have valanced attitudes towards everything. That is, at some level, your mind is quickly categrizing things into, i like it versus, i don't like it. So would this be an example of an implicit attitude? Let's say i'm ii think that i harbour nothing but affectionate, loving attitudes t towards, you know, my brother, or something like that. In fact, there is so some work on on implicit attitudes toward close relationships that tries to assess just that. We'll put a link to the project implicit dot org for anybody to take their own test. But that directsto implicit dot harvard dot d u.
David and Tamler tackle the topic of implicit bias and the controversy surrounding the implicit association test (IAT). What is implicit bias anyway? Does it have to be linked to behavior in order to truly count as a "bias"? Has the IAT been overhyped as a reflection of individual or group prejudice? And why is the debate on this topic so depressing? Plus, some deep thoughts on the intellectual dark web, how to join it, and what the analogy is supposed to reflect.
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Links:
- Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web - The New York Times
- Psychology’s Racism-Measuring Tool Isn’t Up to the Job -- Science of Us
- Implicit-association test - Wikipedia
- Take the Implicit Associations Test (IAT)
- Greenwald, A. G., Poehlman, T. A., Uhlmann, E. L., & Banaji, M. R. (2009). Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test: III. Meta-analysis of predictive validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(1), 17.
- Oswald, F. L., Mitchell, G., Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., & Tetlock, P. E. (2013). Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: A meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies. Journal of personality and social psychology, 105(2), 171.
- Nock, M. K., & Banaji, M. R. (2007). Prediction of suicide ideation and attempts among adolescents using a brief performance-based test. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 75(5), 707.
- Uhlmann, E. L., Pizarro, D. A., & Bloom, P. (2008). Varieties of social cognition. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38(3), 293-322. — This is a paper in which Eric Uhlmann, Paul Bloom and one of your humble hosts try to tackle the ways in which the word 'unconscious' is used (and abused) in the literature on social cognition.