Hussey, Ian; De Houwer, Jan (2018). The Implicit Association Test as an analogical learning task. Experimental psychology, 65(5), pp. 272-285. Hogrefe 10.1027/1618-3169/a000416
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The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a popular tool for measuring attitudes. We suggest that performing an IAT could, however, also change attitudes via analogical learning. For instance, when performing an IAT in which participants categorize (previously unknown) Chinese characters, flowers, positive words, and negative words, participants could infer that Chinese characters relate to flowers as negative words relate to positive words. This analogy would imply that Chinese characters are opposite to flowers in terms of valence and thus that they are negative. Results from three studies (N = 602) confirmed that evaluative learning can occur when completing an IAT, and suggest that this effect can be described as analogical. We discuss the implications of our findings for research on analogy and research on the IAT as a measure of attitudes.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Psychology of Digitalization |
UniBE Contributor: |
Hussey, Ian |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology |
ISSN: |
1618-3169 |
Publisher: |
Hogrefe |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Ian Hussey |
Date Deposited: |
06 Sep 2023 09:41 |
Last Modified: |
10 Nov 2023 07:33 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1027/1618-3169/a000416 |
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PubMed ID: |
30451105 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/186070 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/186070 |