title: The relational responding task: toward a new implicit measure of beliefs.
abstract: We introduce the Relational Responding Task (RRT) as a tool for capturing beliefs at the implicit level. Flemish participants were asked to respond as if they believed that Flemish people are more intelligent than immigrants (e.g., respond "true" to the statement "Flemish people are wiser than immigrants") or to respond as if they believed that immigrants are more intelligent than Flemish people (e.g., respond "true" to the statement "Flemish people are dumber than immigrants"). The difference in performance between these two tasks correlated with ratings of the extent to which participants explicitly endorsed the belief that Flemish people are more intelligent than immigrants and with questionnaire measures of subtle and blatant racism. The current study provides a first step toward validating RRT effects as a viable measure of implicit beliefs.
authors: Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium.
authors: Jan
authors: J
authors: De Houwer
authors: Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium.
authors: Niclas
authors: N
authors: Heider
authors: Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium.
authors: Adriaan
authors: A
authors: Spruyt
authors: Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium.
authors: Arne
authors: A
authors: Roets
authors: Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium.
authors: Sean
authors: S
authors: Hughes
keywords: implicit measures; racism; relational responding