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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Implicit measures"”.
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Cognitive and Emotional Defusion: Investigations of the Underlying Psychological Processes using Explicit and Implicit Measures
… the impact of defusion on explicit self-report measures. Experiment 1 examined the emotional impact of a brief defusion technique on positive and negative self-statements. In this case, defusion was manipulated through the use of pro- or anti-defusion instructions and prefixing the statements …
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Extensions of the Tripartite Integration Model of Social Influence (TIMSI): Using Explicit and Implicit Measures to Examine Ethnic Minority and Majority Student Academic Achievement
… of the study was to determine whether or not the Implicit Associations Test (IAT) could successfully differentiate between the rule and value orientations. The second purpose of this study was to further develop the TIMSI model and determine how it applied to the samples in this study, using this …
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Explicit-Implicit Attitudinal Ambivalence in Romantic Relationships: Antecedents and Outcomes
… relationship were assessed using explicit measures. Implicit measures however recently gained popularity owing to the fact that they have been demonstrated to provide attitudinal information beyond that which is communicated through explicit measures. Given the recent advent of the …
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Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure to examine implicit beauty-bias in the context of employability evaluations
… by undergraduate university students using an implicit measure (the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure; IRAP) and a number of explicit measures (Interpersonal Judgement Scale, Byrne, 1971; Measures of Interpersonal Attraction, McCroskey & McCain, 1974; and Likert scales). A number of …
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Testing Tests: Determination of the Efficacy of Prejudice Measures
<p>Numerous scales and measures exist to determine the level of prejudice in an individual. This study compared six prejudice measures in an attempt to explore the strengths and faults of each measure. Each measure was correlated with a Social Desirability Scale, and each explicit measure was …
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Quantifying differential stimulus relatedness using the Function Acquisition Speed Test
… of the effectiveness of a new behaviour-analytic implicit psychological measure, the Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) in quantifying differential relatedness between experimental stimuli. Demonstration of the effectiveness of the measure in this regard would provide salient information to …
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Attitudes Toward Robots among a Japanese and U.S. University Faculty using Implicit and Explicit Measures
… groups. In addition, no studies have considered implicit measures of attitudes toward robots, which are indicative of uncontrolled cognitive processes, thus reducing self-presentational bias. This study presents a cross-cultural comparison of attitudes toward robots at a US and Japanese faculty …
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Applied Behaviour Analysis versus Positive Behaviour Support: Using an Implicit Measure (IRAP) to evaluate influence of terminology on Social Acceptance
… affected naive college participants’ (N=60) implicit and explicit rating evaluations of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) when both described similarly as educational supports. Participants were then divided into two groups and exposed to an intervention …
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Implicit and Explicit Emotional Responses to Light Induced Milk Oxidation and Breakfast Meals
… body of research related to food and emotions. Implicit (unstated) measures of attention, emotional expression, and motivational behavior tendencies were assessed as additional supportive information for explicit (cognitive) measures of acceptability and emotional response to food and attributes …
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Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) to Assess Evaluations of Death Within Suicidality
… in part to the field’s reliance on self-report measures. One promising avenue that has emerged in recent years is the objective behavioural tasks referred to as “implicit measures”, which have shown greater promising predictive validity relative to existing risk factors derived from self-report …
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Developing an Empirically Valid Function Acquisition Speed Test for Assessing Attitudes to and Predicting Real-world Behaviour
… or pro-choice attitudes, were exposed to an Implicit Association Test (IAT), a FAST procedure, an explicit attitudes to abortion questionnaire, and a demographic survey. This procedure allowed for a comparison of FAST and IAT outcomes, inter-correlations between the explicit and implicit …
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Development and validation of an implicit test of the HEXACO honesty-humility scale
… concerns exist that self-report personality measures are vulnerable to socially desirable responding, self-report bias, faking and being prone to testtakers’ lack of introspective accuracy. Therefore, researchers have started using implicit tests to assess personality, as it is more difficult …
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The effects of approach-avoidance modification on social anxiety disorder
… were randomly assigned to an active condition (implicit training to approach smiling faces) or control condition (equal approach and avoidance of smiling faces) of the Approach and Avoidance Task (a computerized joystick task) in three sessions over the span of a week. Pre- to post-assessment …
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Homosexual Representation Diversity in Media: The Role of Associative Interference in Diminishing Stereotypes and Improving Attitudes
… attitude change at both the explicit and implicit levels. Priming Effects Theory suggests that one's attention can be directed to recognize and focus on certain traits. To disperse traits of homosexuality, Associative Interference, which suggests an inverse relationship between the size …
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Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) to explore implicit versus self-report attitudes toward bullying with students at post-primary and university levels
The current research sought to develop the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a measure of bullying attitudes amongst Secondary School and University Students in South East Ireland. The research assessed whether IRAP performance differed between University and Secondary School …
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THE ROLE OF REINTERPRETATION IN THE REVISION OF IMPLICIT IMPRESSIONS
Much research and theory has suggested that implicit (versus explicit) impressions of other people may be particularly difficult to reverse once formed, as they may be relatively insulated from propositional thinking. Furthermore, the revision of negative first implicit impressions has been …
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The placebo effect: measurement by multiple methods
… the relationship of explicit (self-report), implicit (IAT) and physiological variables to the placebo effect. The thesis consisted of three main parts. The first collected background data and developed models for two constructs (Optimism and Mindfulness) associated with the placebo effect and …
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Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure as a Measure of Self-Forgiveness
The current thesis set out to develop an implicit relational assessment procedure as a measure of self-forgiveness across five studies. The first study targeted the development of a measure of implicit forgiveness of self related to “minor” transgressions (mistakes, flaws, shortcomings) versus the …
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IN SEARCH OF A SIMPLIFIED, OBJECTIVE ATTACHMENT STYLE ASSESSMENT: THE ATTACHMENT IMPLICIT MEASURE
… ATTACHMENT STYLE ASSESSMENT: THE ATTACHMENT IMPLICIT MEASURE</p> <p>By</p> <p>Lisa M. Savage</p> <p>Attachment is a lasting bond between two people (Bowlby, 1958). Bonding starts at birth and lasts through the lifetime (Bowlby, 1958). Emotional and social development is impacted by attachment …
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ASSESSING STEREOTYPE CONTENT AND ACCURACY OF THE POOR: INTERPERSONAL WARMTH AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE DIMENSIONS
… among the poor and the non-poor by using implicit and explicit measures and (b) how these stereotypes map onto actual traits of the poor (i.e., stereotype accuracy). Experiment 1a assessed the stereotype of interpersonal warmth associated with the poor in the non-poor individuals using the …
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