Consequential validity of the implicit association Test: Comment on Blanton and Jaccard (2006)

American Psychologist

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-61

  Greenwald, Anthony G ^a   Nosek, Brian A ^b   Sriram, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consequential validity; IAT; Implicit Association Test; Predictive validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ASSOCIATION; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 31144444256     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.61.1.56     Document Type: Article

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