Prejudiced or just smart? Intelligence as a confounding factor in the IAT effect

Journal of Psychology

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-53

  von Stülpnagel, Rul ^a   Steffens, Melanie C ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive skill confound; Implicit association test; Intelligence; Method specific variance; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952530488     PISSN: 00443409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0044-3409/a000008     Document Type: Article

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