Beyond Persons and Situations: An Interactionist Approach to Understanding Implicit Bias

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Notes

¹ Similar findings were obtained for an Implicit Association Test designed to measure the implicit self-concept of anxiety.

² To our surprise, these issues have been largely ignored in the current debate about implicit bias, although the conditional nature of attitude-behavior relations has been extensively discussed in 1970s and 1980s (e.g., Zanna & Fazio, 1982). Similar to the current argument, the main conclusion from these earlier debates was that the strength attitude-behavior relations depend on the particular behavior, the conditions under which the behavior is performed, and the person who is performing the behavior.