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

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What Cognitive Mechanisms Do People Reflect on When They Predict IAT Scores? Rivers, Andrew M.; Hahn, Adam

Abstract

Research indicates that individuals can prospectively predict biases they will show on the IAT (Hahn, Judd, Hirsh, & Blair, 2014). The present study uses the Quadruple process model to analyze data from Hahn et al. (2014) 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 selfregulatory control best explains what participants report when they predict their biases on the IAT. Further, it appears to be specifically the total activation of positive attitudes toward Whites and negative attitudes toward minorities rather than negative attitudes towards minorities alone, that participants use to make their predictions.

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Title	What Cognitive Mechanisms Do People Reflect on When They Predict IAT Scores?
Creator	Rivers, Andrew M.; Hahn, Adam
Publisher	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Date Issued	2018-10-14
Description	Research indicates that individuals can prospectively predict biases they will show on the IAT (Hahn, Judd, Hirsh, & Blair, 2014). The present study uses the Quadruple process model to analyze data from Hahn et al. (2014) 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 selfregulatory control best explains what participants report when they predict their biases on the IAT. Further, it appears to be specifically the total activation of positive attitudes toward Whites and negative attitudes toward minorities rather than negative attitudes towards minorities alone, that participants use to make their predictions.
Subject	Implicit attitudes; Racial bias; Quad model; Consciousness
Genre	Article; Preprint
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2019-05-06
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0378609
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/70077
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of; Psychology, Department of
Citation	Rivers, A. M., & Hahn, A. (in press). What cognitive mechanisms do people reflect on when they predict IAT scores? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Published online ahead of print.
Publisher DOI	10.1177/0146167218799307
Peer Review Status	Reviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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