Affective Focus Increases the Concordance Between Implicit and Explicit Attitudes

作者：Smith Colin Tucker^*; Nosek Brian A

来源：Social Psychology, 2011, 42(4): 300-313.

DOI：10.1027/1864-9335/a000072

• affect
• cognition
• implicit attitudes
• explicit attitudes
• structural equation modeling

Two attitude dichotomies - implicit versus explicit and affect versus cognition - are presumed to be related. Following a manipulation of attitudinal focus (affective or cognitive), participants completed two implicit measures (Implicit Association Test and the Sorting Paired Features task) and three explicit attitude measures toward cats/dogs (Study 1) and gay/straight people (Study 2). Based on confirmatory factor analysis, both studies showed that explicit attitudes were more related to implicit attitudes in an affective focus than in a cognitive focus. We suggest that, although explicit evaluations can be meaningfully parsed into affective and cognitive components, implicit evaluations are more related to affective than cognitive components of attitudes.

• 出版日期2011