Anomalies in implicit attitudes research

Abstract

In this review, I provide a pessimistic assessment of the indirect measurement of attitudes by highlighting the persisting anomalies in the science of implicit attitudes, focusing on their validity, reliability, predictive power, and causal efficiency, and I draw some conclusions concerning the validity of the implicit bias construct. This article is categorized under: Psychology > Reasoning and Decision Making.

Keywords: bias; construct validity; implicit attitude; indirect measure.