Han, Olson, and Fazio established that the attribute response labels typically employed in the IAT contribute to the malleability of the IAT, clouding inferences about attitude change.
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- XREF: connects to: To what extent does environmental visual adaptation (e.g., living in extreme high- or low-chroma landscapes) shift an individualās implicit cognitive associations between achromatic light and moral valence?; IAT scores can be changed by the ambiguous attribute response labels of an unrelated preceding mindset task, so observed change may reflect the measure rather than the attitude. ā Malleability of Attitudes or Malleability of the IAT?; The IAT as conventionally implemented is open to multiple interpretations and can provide contextually malleable measurement outcomes, distinguishing the malleability of the measure from the malleability of attitudes. ā https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103109003047 (+1 more)
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- IAT scores can be changed by the ambiguous attribute response labels of an unrelated preceding mindset task, so observed change may reflect the measure rather than the attitude. (similarity 0.97)
- The IAT as conventionally implemented is open to multiple interpretations and can provide contextually malleable measurement outcomes, distinguishing the malleability of the measure from theā¦ (similarity 0.93)
- The original IAT paper (Greenwald, McGhee & Schwartz, 1998) introduced response labels like āpleasantā and āunpleasantā assuming these unambiguously measured association strength and implicitā¦ (similarity 0.87)
- IAT scores fluctuate with oneās current context and are better measures of biases held by places than biases held within minds. (similarity 0.86)
- IATs lack psychometric evidence of construct validity; at best 36% of variance in a single IAT may reflect implicit attitudes, and the proportion could be 0. (similarity 0.84)
- Implicit associations reflected in the IAT are influenced by societal messages, life experiences, context, and other environmental factors. (similarity 0.82)