A multitrait-multimethod validation of the implicit association test: Implicit and explicit attitudes are related but distinct constructs

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-29

  Nosek, Brian A ^a   Smyth, Frederick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Construct validity; Implicit social cognition; Individual differences; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

EID: 33847301447     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.54.1.14     Document Type: Article

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