Past experience shapes judgments without the actor knowing it.

Evidence

Social behavior is ordinarily treated as being under conscious (if not always thoughtful) control. However, considerable evidence now supports the view that social behavior often operates in an implicit or unconscious fashion. The identifying feature of implicit cognition is that past experience influences judgment in a fashion not introspectively known by the actor. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 3

Categorization

• DEFINE: The foundational definition of implicit cognition: influence on judgment not introspectively known to the actor.
• DEEPTHINKING: The core operational definition that anchors the entire implicit-cognition program — worth re-deriving against the MOC’s group-defense mechanisms.
• XREF: connects to: Accessible memories can shape judgments without the person recognizing their causal influence. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 85; Implicit attitudes are past-experience traces not introspectively identified by the actor. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 80; Implicit cognition is past experience’s unnoticed trace shaping responses. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 21 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Accessible memories can shape judgments without the person recognizing their causal influence. #expands (0.95) — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 85
• Implicit cognition is past experience’s unnoticed trace shaping responses. #expands (0.94) — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 21
• Implicit attitudes are past-experience traces not introspectively identified by the actor. #exemplifies (0.92) — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 80
• Habitual perception filters through others’ prior thoughts and must be stripped away. #complicates (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 342
• Attention is learned, not innate, so it can be retrained #qualifies (0.74) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 198
• Repeated exposure to others’ judgments inevitably shapes a person’s character #exemplifies (0.72)