Thank you for your participation. In this study, we are investigating the formation of preferences for different groups. By having you read positive and negative statements about two social groups, and then measuring your automatic associations, we are hoping to better understand how information that occurs in the environment leads to automatic associations. We used fictitious social groups in this study because we wanted to see how new automatic associations form; we could only do so by using groups about which people have no preexisting attitudes.
We measured your implicit attitudes using the implicit association task. The idea is that it should be easier to sort pairs of concepts that are associated in memory. For instance, someone who has more positive associations about Reemolap than Vabbenif should be faster to categorize "Reemolap and Good" pairs than "Vabbenif and Good" pairs. Your results are:
Your data suggest little to no difference in implicit preference between Vabbenif and Reemolap.
Below is the interpretation of your IAT performance, followed by questions about what you think it means. The next page explains the task and has more information such as a summary of what most people show on this IAT. Your ResultYour data suggest a strong automatic preference for African American compared to European American.The interpretation is described as 'automatic preference for European American' if you responded faster when European American faces and Good words were classified with the same key than when African American faces and Good words were classified with the same key. Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic preference may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no preference'. Alternatively, you may have received feedback that 'there were too many errors to determine a result'.
I suppose it is because I have immersed myself in different cultures over the years. I don't feel I have a strong preference either way, for any race.


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