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.