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.
Evidence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103109003047
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: To what extent does environmental visual adaptation (e.g., living in extreme high- or low-chroma landscapes) shift an individual’s implicit cognitive associations between achromatic light and moral valence?; 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. — Invalid Claims About the Validity of Implicit Association Tests by Prisoners of the Implicit Social-Cognition Paradigm; 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. — Malleability of Attitudes or Malleability of the IAT? (+3 more)
Related
- 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 0.94)
- 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 0.93)
- 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. (similarity 0.93)
- IAT scores fluctuate with one’s current context and are better measures of biases held by places than biases held within minds. (similarity 0.92)
- Implicit associations reflected in the IAT are influenced by societal messages, life experiences, context, and other environmental factors. (similarity 0.88)
- The original IAT paper (Greenwald, McGhee & Schwartz, 1998) introduced response labels like ‘pleasant’ and ‘unpleasant’ assuming these unambiguously measured association strength and implicit… (similarity 0.84)
- Analysis of 4 million IATs (2004-2016) shows American implicit attitudes toward race, skin tone, and sexuality became less biased over time, tracking cultural trends. (similarity 0.80)