Implicit cognition is past experience’s unnoticed trace shaping responses.
Evidence
A template for definitions of specific categories of implicit cognition is: An implicit C is the introspectively unidentified (or inaccurately identified) trace of past experience that mediates R. In this template, C is the label for a construct (such as attitude), and R names the category of responses (such as objectevaluative judgments) assumed to be influenced by that construct. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 21
Categorization
- DEFINE: The generative template ‘an implicit C is the introspectively unidentified trace of past experience that mediates R’ formally defines the whole family of implicit constructs.
- XREF: connects to: Past experience shapes judgments without the actor knowing it. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 3; Awareness of prior influence marks the boundary separating implicit cognition from priming effects — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 40; Implicit cognition cannot be studied with introspection-presuming direct measures. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 22 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Implicit attitudes are past-experience traces not introspectively identified by the actor.
#exemplifies(0.88) — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 80 - Implicit bias operates below awareness and resists admission even when perceived
#exemplifies(0.82) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 666 - Stereotypes can operate implicitly outside conscious awareness
#exemplifies(0.81) — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 193 - Unconsciously primed concepts trigger corresponding behaviors in people
#exemplifies(0.80) - Implicit social cognition research reveals prejudice operating below conscious awareness
#exemplifies(0.79) - Awareness of prior influence marks the boundary separating implicit cognition from priming effects
#qualifies(0.78) — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 40 - Perception arrives pre-shaped by expectations and context, never raw
#expands(0.76) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 729 - Implicit cognition cannot be studied with introspection-presuming direct measures.
#expands(0.74) — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 22 - People read other minds by applying learned implicit theories about behavior
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