Task-set inertia, attitude accessibility, and compatibility-order effects: new evidence for a task-set switching account of the implicit association test effect.
Based on a task-set switching account of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), the authors predict a specific pattern of aftereffects as a consequence of working through IAT blocks. In Study 1, performance in an evaluative decision task, but not in a color-naming task, was decreased after working through the incompatible rather than compatible block of a flower-insect IAT. In Study 2, response latencies in an evaluative rating task, but not in a color-rating task, were analogously affected, whereas the ratings themselves were not a function of the compatibility of prior IAT blocks. The aftereffects demonstrate reactivity of the IAT; they bear on the mechanisms underlying the IAT and on compatibility-order effects.
Klauer
Karl Christoph
KC
Institut für Psychologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, D-79085 Freiburg, Germany. christoph.klauer@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de
Mierke
Jan
J
D000328:Adult; D001245:Association Learning; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis