Does the name-race Implicit Association Test measure racial prejudice?

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 271-277

  Van Ravenzwaaij, Don ^a   Van Der Maas, Han L J ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diffusion model; Implicit Association Test; In group out group membership; Racial prejudice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FINLAND; HUMAN; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; NOMENCLATURE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VISION;

ATTITUDE; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FINLAND; HUMANS; MOROCCO; NAMES; NETHERLANDS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960167325     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000093     Document Type: Article

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