The Implicit Association Test - Kate A. Ratliff & Colin Tucker Smith F

In this essay, we describe the IAT procedure, summarize key findings using the IAT to document the pervasiveness and correlates of implicit bias, and discuss various ways to interpret IAT scores. [...] And then the categories switch so the young-adult faces and positive words share the same response key, and older-adult faces and negative words share the same response key, and you would go through the process again with the updated pairings. [...] In addition to the direction and strength of an IAT score (that is, which group it favors and whether we describe it as slight, moderate, or strong), we can also think about the pervasiveness of IAT-measured implicit bias by looking at the percentages of respondents on each task whose IAT score indicates a bias favoring one group over another. [...] Another opportunity that this accumulated data set of IAT scores affords re- searchers is the ability to track whether levels of implicit bias have changed over 153 (1) Winter 2024 55 The Implicit Association Test Figure 3 Proportion of Biases Favoring White People over Black People in the Implicit Association Test for White and Black Participants Source: Authors’ compilation of data collected at. [...] That said, in terms of sheer numbers, the number of data points in the Project Implicit sample is bigger than the total combined population of eighteen U.