Instant likes and dislikes often arise without any introspectively accessible basis.
Evidence
In some cases, an explicit basis for the instant attitude may seem obvious to its possessor: there is apparent self-other similarity, or an athletic team is from one’s home town or university, or a fictional character is depicted in blatantly admirable or despicable terms. In other cases, the instant attitude may have no introspectively accessible basis and, therefore, likely merits identification as an implicit attitude. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 107
Categorization
- QUESTION: Whether ‘instant attitudes’ with no introspectively accessible basis are the cleanest case of implicit evaluative responding is worth chasing — this is the reader’s core puzzle about implicit vs. MOC group-defense.
- XREF: connects to: Implicit attitudes are past-experience traces not introspectively identified by the actor. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 80; Mere exposure effects strengthen as memory for exposures is reduced.; A diffuse attitude toward one attribute can implicitly inflect judgments of unrelated attributes. (+4 more)
Related
- Attitudes often form instantly without any introspectively accessible basis (similarity 0.87)
- Implicit attitudes are past-experience traces not introspectively identified by the actor. (similarity 0.87)
Broader Connections
- Prejudice can operate implicitly, without perceivers’ intent or awareness.
#corroborates(0.90) - People can hold prejudices without any conscious awareness of them
#corroborates(0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 148 - Some preferences are inherently unknowable even when their owner is desperate to reveal them
#expands(0.78) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 278 - People widely absorb that ideas co-occur without knowing why they do
#exemplifies(0.74) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1870