title: Conflict monitoring and stimulus categorization processes involved in the prosocial attitude implicit association test: Evidence from event-related potentials.
abstract: The implicit association test (IAT) is a promising method used to assess individual implicit attitudes by indirectly measuring the strengths of associations between target and attribute categories. To date, the cognitive processes involved in the prosocial attitude IAT task have received little attention. The present study examined the temporal dynamics of the IAT that measures prosocial attitude using event-related potentials (ERPs). ERP results revealed enhanced N2 amplitudes for incongruent trials when compared with congruent trials and enhanced P300 amplitudes for congruent trials when compared with incongruent trials. In addition, the N2 amplitude differences were significantly correlated with individual prosocial behavior (the amount of donation). Our findings suggest that conflict monitoring and stimulus categorization processes are involved in the prosocial attitude IAT task and that the ERP indices of IATs that measure prosocial attitude may predict individual prosocial behavior.
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Developmental Psychology, School of Psychology , Beijing Normal University , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Fengqiu
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Zhiwei
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Ya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jifang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Yinghe
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001290:Attitude; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012919:Social Behavior; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Event-related potentials; Implicit association test; N2; P300; Prosocial attitude