Why a Standard IAT Effect Cannot Provide Evidence for Association Formation: The Role of Similarity Construction. Bading, K., Stahl, C., & Rothermund, K. Cognition and Emotion, 0(0):1-16, April, 2019. doi abstract bibtex Moran and Bar-Anan (Moran, T., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2013). The effect of object-valence relations on automatic evaluation. Cognition and Emotion, 27(4), 743\textendash752) demonstrated that evaluations on a direct measure reflected information on both US valence and CS-US relations, whereas evaluations on an indirect measure (IAT) reflected only information on US valence. This dissociation between measures supposedly tapping into propositional and associative processes apparently supports dual process models of EC. In the present study, we present an alternative explanation of this pattern, based on an interpretation of IAT effects in terms of flexible similarity construction processes. According to this account, processing draws on those features that discriminate between target categories, and help to align targets with attributes in the compatible block. Across two experiments, we consistently found that IAT effects did not reflect rigid associations, but instead depended on whichever information could be used for similarity constructions between targets and attributes in different variants of the IAT. The findings are discussed with regard to theoretical models of EC as well as in reference to prominent accounts of IAT performance.
@article{bading_why_2019,
title = {Why a Standard {{IAT}} Effect Cannot Provide Evidence for Association Formation: The Role of Similarity Construction},
volume = {0},
issn = {0269-9931},
shorttitle = {Why a Standard {{IAT}} Effect Cannot Provide Evidence for Association Formation},
abstract = {Moran and Bar-Anan (Moran, T., \& Bar-Anan, Y. (2013). The effect of object-valence relations on automatic evaluation. Cognition and Emotion, 27(4), 743\textendash{}752) demonstrated that evaluations on a direct measure reflected information on both US valence and CS-US relations, whereas evaluations on an indirect measure (IAT) reflected only information on US valence. This dissociation between measures supposedly tapping into propositional and associative processes apparently supports dual process models of EC. In the present study, we present an alternative explanation of this pattern, based on an interpretation of IAT effects in terms of flexible similarity construction processes. According to this account, processing draws on those features that discriminate between target categories, and help to align targets with attributes in the compatible block. Across two experiments, we consistently found that IAT effects did not reflect rigid associations, but instead depended on whichever information could be used for similarity constructions between targets and attributes in different variants of the IAT. The findings are discussed with regard to theoretical models of EC as well as in reference to prominent accounts of IAT performance.},
number = {0},
journal = {Cognition and Emotion},
doi = {10.1080/02699931.2019.1604322},
author = {Bading, Karoline and Stahl, Christoph and Rothermund, Klaus},
month = apr,
year = {2019},
keywords = {Evaluative conditioning,Implicit Association Test,association formation,propositional learning,similarity construction},
pages = {1-16},
file = {G\:\\_lokal\\Zotero\\storage\\6Q4CDTP6\\10.1080@02699931.2019.1604322.pdf;G\:\\_lokal\\Zotero\\storage\\S6ZNLTT4\\Bading_etal_2019_Why_a_standard_IAT_effect.pdf},
pmid = {30999813}
}
Downloads: 0
{"_id":"gjCTsyrqHacQHnumb","bibbaseid":"bading-stahl-rothermund-whyastandardiateffectcannotprovideevidenceforassociationformationtheroleofsimilarityconstruction-2019","authorIDs":["5d834d27a05f10da0100012d"],"author_short":["Bading, K.","Stahl, C.","Rothermund, K."],"bibdata":{"bibtype":"article","type":"article","title":"Why a Standard IAT Effect Cannot Provide Evidence for Association Formation: The Role of Similarity Construction","volume":"0","issn":"0269-9931","shorttitle":"Why a Standard IAT Effect Cannot Provide Evidence for Association Formation","abstract":"Moran and Bar-Anan (Moran, T., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2013). The effect of object-valence relations on automatic evaluation. Cognition and Emotion, 27(4), 743\\textendash752) demonstrated that evaluations on a direct measure reflected information on both US valence and CS-US relations, whereas evaluations on an indirect measure (IAT) reflected only information on US valence. This dissociation between measures supposedly tapping into propositional and associative processes apparently supports dual process models of EC. In the present study, we present an alternative explanation of this pattern, based on an interpretation of IAT effects in terms of flexible similarity construction processes. According to this account, processing draws on those features that discriminate between target categories, and help to align targets with attributes in the compatible block. Across two experiments, we consistently found that IAT effects did not reflect rigid associations, but instead depended on whichever information could be used for similarity constructions between targets and attributes in different variants of the IAT. The findings are discussed with regard to theoretical models of EC as well as in reference to prominent accounts of IAT performance.","number":"0","journal":"Cognition and Emotion","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2019.1604322","author":[{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Bading"],"firstnames":["Karoline"],"suffixes":[]},{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Stahl"],"firstnames":["Christoph"],"suffixes":[]},{"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Rothermund"],"firstnames":["Klaus"],"suffixes":[]}],"month":"April","year":"2019","keywords":"Evaluative conditioning,Implicit Association Test,association formation,propositional learning,similarity construction","pages":"1-16","file":"G\\:\\_lokal\\\\Zotero\\\\storage\\\\6Q4CDTP6\\\\10.1080@02699931.2019.1604322.pdf;G\\:\\_lokal\\\\Zotero\\\\storage\\\\S6ZNLTT4\\\\Bading_etal_2019_Why_a_standard_IAT_effect.pdf","pmid":"30999813","bibtex":"@article{bading_why_2019,\n title = {Why a Standard {{IAT}} Effect Cannot Provide Evidence for Association Formation: The Role of Similarity Construction},\n volume = {0},\n issn = {0269-9931},\n shorttitle = {Why a Standard {{IAT}} Effect Cannot Provide Evidence for Association Formation},\n abstract = {Moran and Bar-Anan (Moran, T., \\& Bar-Anan, Y. (2013). The effect of object-valence relations on automatic evaluation. Cognition and Emotion, 27(4), 743\\textendash{}752) demonstrated that evaluations on a direct measure reflected information on both US valence and CS-US relations, whereas evaluations on an indirect measure (IAT) reflected only information on US valence. This dissociation between measures supposedly tapping into propositional and associative processes apparently supports dual process models of EC. In the present study, we present an alternative explanation of this pattern, based on an interpretation of IAT effects in terms of flexible similarity construction processes. According to this account, processing draws on those features that discriminate between target categories, and help to align targets with attributes in the compatible block. Across two experiments, we consistently found that IAT effects did not reflect rigid associations, but instead depended on whichever information could be used for similarity constructions between targets and attributes in different variants of the IAT. The findings are discussed with regard to theoretical models of EC as well as in reference to prominent accounts of IAT performance.},\n number = {0},\n journal = {Cognition and Emotion},\n doi = {10.1080/02699931.2019.1604322},\n author = {Bading, Karoline and Stahl, Christoph and Rothermund, Klaus},\n month = apr,\n year = {2019},\n keywords = {Evaluative conditioning,Implicit Association Test,association formation,propositional learning,similarity construction},\n pages = {1-16},\n file = {G\\:\\\\_lokal\\\\Zotero\\\\storage\\\\6Q4CDTP6\\\\10.1080@02699931.2019.1604322.pdf;G\\:\\\\_lokal\\\\Zotero\\\\storage\\\\S6ZNLTT4\\\\Bading_etal_2019_Why_a_standard_IAT_effect.pdf},\n pmid = {30999813}\n}\n\n","author_short":["Bading, K.","Stahl, C.","Rothermund, K."],"key":"bading_why_2019","id":"bading_why_2019","bibbaseid":"bading-stahl-rothermund-whyastandardiateffectcannotprovideevidenceforassociationformationtheroleofsimilarityconstruction-2019","role":"author","urls":{},"keyword":["Evaluative conditioning","Implicit Association Test","association formation","propositional learning","similarity construction"],"downloads":0},"bibtype":"article","biburl":"https://www.dropbox.com/s/epb9fnf0cw5fs4w/Methexp_Lab_Publications.bib?dl=1","creationDate":"2019-09-19T09:40:55.521Z","downloads":0,"keywords":["evaluative conditioning","implicit association test","association formation","propositional learning","similarity construction"],"search_terms":["standard","iat","effect","provide","evidence","association","formation","role","similarity","construction","bading","stahl","rothermund"],"title":"Why a Standard IAT Effect Cannot Provide Evidence for Association Formation: The Role of Similarity Construction","year":2019,"dataSources":["DuY4kEq6gnB8KBPjn"]}