Implicit Tasks to Evaluate Attitudes Towards Others

This section is categorized by the types of measures.

Prosocial and Intrinsic motivations with items adapted from self-regulation scales developed by Ryan and Connell (1989).

• Cronbach’s alpha for prosocial motivations = .90
• Cronbach’s alpha for intrinsic motivations = .71
• Grant, A. M. (2008). Does intrinsic motivation fuel the prosocial fire? Motivational synergy in predicting persistence, performance, and productivity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(1), 48-58. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.1.48.

The Brief Implicit Association Test (Brief IAT) and the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) both measures look at how one judges others due to race/ethnicity.

• Greenwald, A. G., Smith, C., Sriram, N. N., Bar-Anan, Y., & Nosek, B. A. (2009). Implicit race attitudes predicted vote in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. Analyses Of Social Issues And Public Policy (ASAP), 9(1), 241-253. doi:10.1111/j.1530-2415.2009.01195.x.

Implicit Evaluative Responses assess implicit responses to each picture, using an affective priming task developed by Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell, and Kardes (1986).

• Hutcherson, C. A., Seppala, E. M., & Gross, J. J. (2008). Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. Emotion, 8(5), 720-724. doi:10.1037/a0013237.

The participants were primed with either negative or positive words regarding an individual after a loving-kindness meditation (LKM) or neutral imagery induction practice.