Using 4.4 million tests of implicit and explicit attitudes from U.S. internet respondents, implicit sexuality, race, and skin-tone attitudes decreased in bias over 2007-2016 and were forecast to continue declining toward neutrality.
Evidence
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: I. Long-Term Change and Stability From 2007 to 2016 (Psychological Science (Charlesworth & Banaji))
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?; 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. — Implicit Attitudes Can Change Over the Long Term
Related
- 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 0.97)
- Implicit associations reflected in the IAT are influenced by societal messages, life experiences, context, and other environmental factors. (similarity 0.85)
- 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 0.79)
- IAT scores fluctuate with one’s current context and are better measures of biases held by places than biases held within minds. (similarity 0.78)