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Predicting Behavior With Implicit Measures: Disillusioning Findings, Reasonable Explanations, and Sophisticated Solutions

Frontiers in psychology, 2019-11, Vol.10, p.2483-2483 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2019 Frontiers Research Foundation ;Copyright © 2019 Meissner, Grigutsch, Koranyi, Müller and Rothermund. 2019 Meissner, Grigutsch, Koranyi, Müller and Rothermund ;ISSN: 1664-1078 ;EISSN: 1664-1078 ;DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02483 ;PMID: 31787912

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  • Title:
    Predicting Behavior With Implicit Measures: Disillusioning Findings, Reasonable Explanations, and Sophisticated Solutions
  • Author: Meissner, Franziska ; Grigutsch, Laura Anne ; Koranyi, Nicolas ; Müller, Florian ; Rothermund, Klaus
  • Subjects: attitude-behavior gap ; IAT ; implicit measures ; multinomial processing tree models ; predictive validity ; Psychology ; wanting vs. liking
  • Is Part Of: Frontiers in psychology, 2019-11, Vol.10, p.2483-2483
  • Description: Two decades ago, the introduction of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) sparked enthusiastic reactions. With implicit measures like the IAT, researchers hoped to finally be able to bridge the gap between self-reported attitudes on one hand and behavior on the other. Twenty years of research and several meta-analyses later, however, we have to conclude that neither the IAT nor its derivatives have fulfilled these expectations. Their predictive value for behavioral criteria is weak and their incremental validity over and above self-report measures is negligible. In our review, we present an overview of explanations for these unsatisfactory findings and delineate promising ways forward. Over the years, several reasons for the IAT’s weak predictive validity have been proposed. They point to four potentially problematic features: First, the IAT is by no means a pure measure of individual differences in associations but suffers from extraneous influences like recoding. Hence, the predictive validity of IAT-scores should not be confused with the predictive validity of associations. Second, with the IAT, we usually aim to measure evaluation (“liking”) instead of motivation (“wanting”). Yet, behavior might be determined much more often by the latter than the former. Third, the IAT focuses on measuring associations instead of propositional beliefs and thus taps into a construct that might be too unspecific to account for behavior. Finally, studies on predictive validity are often characterized by a mismatch between predictor and criterion (e.g., while behavior is highly context-specific, the IAT usually takes into account neither the situation nor the domain). Recent research, however, also revealed advances addressing each of these problems, namely (1) procedural and analytical advances to control for recoding in the IAT, (2) measurement procedures to assess implicit wanting, (3) measurement procedures to assess implicit beliefs, and (4) approaches to increase the fit between implicit measures and behavioral criteria (e.g., by incorporating contextual information). Implicit measures like the IAT hold an enormous potential. In order to allow them to fulfill this potential, however, we have to refine our understanding of these measures, and we should incorporate recent conceptual and methodological advancements. This review provides specific recommendations on how to do so.
  • Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1664-1078
    EISSN: 1664-1078
    DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02483
    PMID: 31787912
  • Source: Open Access: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
    Open Access: PubMed Central
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    ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
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