Implicit attitudes are past-experience traces not introspectively identified by the actor.

Evidence

Implicit attitudes are introspectively unidentified (or inaccurately identified) traces of past experience that mediate favorable or unfavorable feeling, thought, or action toward social objects. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 80

Categorization

• DEFINE: The paper’s canonical definition of implicit attitude — the precise target-measure construct the reader’s reading purpose hinges on.
• XREF: connects to: Instant likes and dislikes often arise without any introspectively accessible basis. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 107; A diffuse attitude toward one attribute can implicitly inflect judgments of unrelated attributes.; Members of disadvantaged groups deny their own discrimination implicitly — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 154 (+2 more)

Related

• Implicit cognition is past experience’s unnoticed trace shaping responses. (similarity 0.88)
• Instant likes and dislikes often arise without any introspectively accessible basis. (similarity 0.87)
• Attitudes activated by one object can be misattributed to another (similarity 0.86)
• Attitudes often form instantly without any introspectively accessible basis (similarity 0.85)
• Stereotypes can operate implicitly outside conscious awareness (similarity 0.85)
• Dissociation between implicit and explicit measures validates the implicit attitude construct. (similarity 0.83)
• The attitude construct’s own history never barred unconscious operation (similarity 0.83)
• Social cognition largely operates in an implicit mode (similarity 0.82)
• Attitudes predict behavior even without attentional focus (similarity 0.81)
• A diffuse attitude toward one attribute can implicitly inflect judgments of unrelated attributes. (similarity 0.81)
• Implicit associations reflected in the IAT are influenced by societal messages, life experiences, context, and other environmental factors. (similarity 0.81)
• Past experience shapes judgments without the actor knowing it. (similarity 0.80)
• Laboratory models of unconscious cognition enabled research on implicit social cognition (similarity 0.80)
• Social psychology long treated attitudes and stereotypes as consciously accessible via self-report. (similarity 0.80)
• Accessible memories can shape judgments without the person recognizing their causal influence. (similarity 0.79)