A unified theory of implicit attitudes, stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-concept.

Full Abstract

This theoretical integration of social psychology's main cognitive and affective constructs was shaped by 3 influences:
(a) recent widespread interest in automatic and implicit cognition, (b) development of the Implicit Association Test (IAT; A. G. Greenwald, D. E. McGhee, & J. L. K. Schwartz. 1998), and (c) social psychology's consistency theories of the 1950s, especially F. Heider's (1958) balance theory. The balanced identity design is introduced as a method to test correlational predictions of the theory. Data obtained with this method revealed that predicted consistency patterns were strongly apparent in the data for implicit (IAT) measures but not in those for parallel explicit (self-report) measures. Two additional not-yet-tested predictions of the theory are described.

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Author information

Author/s: Greenwald, Anthony G (AG); Banaji, Mahzarin R (MR); Rudman, Laurie A (LA); Farnham, Shelly D (SD); Nosek, Brian A (BA); Mellott, Deborah S (DS);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-1525, USA. agg(-atsign-)u.washington.edu

Grants: MH-01533 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH-41328 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH-57672 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: Psychological review (Psychol Rev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jan; vol 109 (issue 1) : pp 3-25

Dates: Created 2002/02/26; Completed 2002/03/12; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 11863040, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Comments and Corrections

CommentIn: Psychol Rev. 2006 Jan;113(1):155-69; discussion 170-80. (PMID: 16478306)

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Attitude
Cognition
Humans

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