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Health of the Implicit Association Test at Age 3

Published Online:September 01, 2006https://doi.org/10.1026//0949-3946.48.2.85

Abstract

Abstract. Since its first publication in 1998, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) has been used repeatedly to measure implicit attitudes and other automatic associations. Although there have also been a few studies critical of the IAT, there now exists substantial evidence for the IAT's convergent and discriminant validity, including new evidence reported in several of the articles in this special issue. IAT attitude measures have often correlated only weakly with explicit (self-report) measures of the same associations. It therefore seems appropriate to conclude that the IAT assesses constructs that are often (but not always) distinct from the corresponding constructs measured by self-report.


Die Gesundheit des Implicit Association Test im Alter von drei Jahren

Zusammenfassung. Seit seiner ersten Publikation im Jahr 1998 wurde der Implicit Association Test (IAT) wiederholt eingesetzt, um implizite Einstellungen und andere automatische Assoziationen zu messen. Obwohl es auch einige für den IAT kritische Studien gibt, liegt heute substantielle Evidenz für seine konvergente und diskriminierende Validität vor. Dazu zählen auch einige der Arbeiten, die in diesem Sonderheft berichtet werden. Mit dem IAT gemessene Einstellungen korrelieren häufig nur schwach mit expliziten (selbst-berichteten) Messungen derselben Assoziationen. Es scheint daher angemessen, davon auszugehen, daß der IAT Konstrukte erfasst, die sich häufig (aber nicht immer) von entsprechenden mit Selbstberichten gemessenen Konstrukten unterscheiden

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