title: The Affect Misattribution Procedure: hot or not?
abstract: The Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP; Payne, Cheng, Govorun, & Stewart, 2005) is an important tool in implicit social cognition research, but little is known about its underlying mechanisms. This paper investigates whether, as the name implies, affect-based processes really underlie the AMP. We used a modified AMP that enabled us to separate the influence of affective and nonaffective processes. In three studies, evidence for the implication of nonaffective processes was consistently found. In contrast, there was no evidence for affect-based processes. Thus, the AMP rather seems cold than hot. The generalizability of the results obtained with the modified AMP is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Organisation Psychology, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blaison
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Forensic Psychology, University of Bonn.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0807-463X
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Imhoff
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Organisation Psychology, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.
authors.forename: Isabell
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hühnel
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Organisation Psychology, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.
authors.forename: Ursula
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-6793-7282
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Forensic Psychology, University of Bonn.
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Banse
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D000786:Anger; D001245:Association Learning; D001290:Attitude; D001364:Awareness; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005149:Facial Expression; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D060865:Repetition Priming; D012660:Semantics; D055815:Young Adult