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Implicit Political Attitude Measure

Implicit political attitude measures assess automatic, relatively uncontrolled evaluations of political objects, candidates, parties, racial and social groups, using reaction-time and misattribution tasks rather than self-report. The two leading instruments are the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald et al., 1998), which infers attitudes from the speed of categorization, and the Affect Misattribution Procedure (Payne et al., 2005), which infers them from how a prime biases judgments of ambiguous targets.

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Implicit Measurement of Political Attitudes
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / political-psychology
  • Greenwald, A. G., McGhee, D. E., & Schwartz, J. L. K. (1998). Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The Implicit Association Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(6), 1464-1480. · DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.74.6.1464
  • Payne, B. K., Cheng, C. M., Govorun, O., & Stewart, B. D. (2005). An inkblot for attitudes: Affect misattribution as implicit measurement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(3), 277-293. · DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.89.3.277
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