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The relational responding task: toward a new implicit measure of beliefs

We introduce the Relational Responding Task (RRT) as a tool for capturing beliefs at the implicit level. Flemish participants were asked to respond as if they believed that Flemish people are more intelligent than immigrants (e.g., respond “true” to the statement “Flemish people are wiser than immig...

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Autores principales: De Houwer, Jan, Heider, Niclas, Spruyt, Adriaan, Roets, Arne, Hughes, Sean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4371587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25852624
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00319
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author De Houwer, Jan
Heider, Niclas
Spruyt, Adriaan
Roets, Arne
Hughes, Sean
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description We introduce the Relational Responding Task (RRT) as a tool for capturing beliefs at the implicit level. Flemish participants were asked to respond as if they believed that Flemish people are more intelligent than immigrants (e.g., respond “true” to the statement “Flemish people are wiser than immigrants”) or to respond as if they believed that immigrants are more intelligent than Flemish people (e.g., respond “true” to the statement “Flemish people are dumber than immigrants”). The difference in performance between these two tasks correlated with ratings of the extent to which participants explicitly endorsed the belief that Flemish people are more intelligent than immigrants and with questionnaire measures of subtle and blatant racism. The current study provides a first step toward validating RRT effects as a viable measure of implicit beliefs.
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spelling pubmed-43715872015-04-07 The relational responding task: toward a new implicit measure of beliefs De Houwer, Jan Heider, Niclas Spruyt, Adriaan Roets, Arne Hughes, Sean Front Psychol Psychology We introduce the Relational Responding Task (RRT) as a tool for capturing beliefs at the implicit level. Flemish participants were asked to respond as if they believed that Flemish people are more intelligent than immigrants (e.g., respond “true” to the statement “Flemish people are wiser than immigrants”) or to respond as if they believed that immigrants are more intelligent than Flemish people (e.g., respond “true” to the statement “Flemish people are dumber than immigrants”). The difference in performance between these two tasks correlated with ratings of the extent to which participants explicitly endorsed the belief that Flemish people are more intelligent than immigrants and with questionnaire measures of subtle and blatant racism. The current study provides a first step toward validating RRT effects as a viable measure of implicit beliefs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4371587/ /pubmed/25852624 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00319 Text en Copyright © 2015 De Houwer, Heider, Spruyt, Roets and Hughes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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