Implicit Person Memory: Domain-General and Domain-Specific Processes of Learning and Change 1

Abstract

Benedek Kurdi is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Project Implicit, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and international collaborative of researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition.

How do explicit and implicit evaluations shift? A preregistered meta-analysis of the effects of co-occurrence and relational information.

“…This type of view, according to which implicit evaluations should be sensitive exclusively (or at least predominantly) to co-occurrence information, can be traced back to the very beginnings of implicit social cognition research (see Kurdi & Banaji, 2022): Along with the sequential priming paradigms (Meyer & Schvaneveldt, 1971; Neely, 1976) used to measure implicit evaluations in the early studies of the 1980s, the field also inherited the spreading activation models (e.g., Collins & Loftus, 1975) customarily used to interpret the results emerging from such paradigms. Specifically, it was assumed that attitudes were represented via associative strengths between conceptual nodes in long-term memory (e.g., Vaccine – Negative) .…”

“…However, the likelihood of such reversal, and even modulation, is assumed to be low when evaluations are implicit (or measured under relatively suboptimal conditions, usually using some indirect behavioral index, such as response latencies; De Devine, 1989;Fazio et al, 1986;Fazio & Olson, 2003;Greenwald & Banaji, 1995). This type of view, according to which implicit evaluations should be sensitive exclusively (or at least predominantly) to co-occurrence information, can be traced back to the very beginnings of implicit social cognition research (see Kurdi & Banaji, 2022): Along with the sequential priming paradigms (Meyer & Schvaneveldt, 1971; This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”