Employing automatic approach and avoidance tendencies for the assessment of implicit personality self-concept: The implicit association procedure (IAP).

Full Abstract

A new chronometric procedure, the Implicit Association Procedure (IAP), was adapted to assess the implicit personality self-concept of shyness. A sample of 300 participants completed a shyness-inducing role play and, before or after the role play, a shyness IAP, a shyness Implicit Association Test (IAT), and direct self-ratings. The experimental group was instructed to fake nonshyness. The control group did not receive this instruction. IAT and IAP were unaffected by position effects, and were less susceptible to faking than direct self-ratings with regard to mean levels and correlates. Under faking, correlations between direct and indirect measures decreased, and direct but not indirect measures showed higher correlations with social desirability and lower correlations with observed shyness. Despite many similarities, the true correlation between IAT and IAP was estimated only .61, indicating high method-specific variance in both procedures. The findings suggest that indirect measures are more robust against faking than traditional self-ratings but do not yet meet psychometric criteria for practical assessment purposes.

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Author information

Author/s: Schnabel, Konrad (K); Banse, Rainer (R); Asendorpf, Jens (J);

Affiliation: Department of Personality Psychology, Institute for Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. konrad.schnabel(-atsign-)psychologie.hu-berlin.de

Journal and publication information

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

Journal: Experimental psychology (Exp Psychol), published in Germany. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-; vol 53 (issue 1) : pp 69-76

Dates: Created 2006/04/13; Completed 2006/05/11; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 16610274, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Adult
Association
Automatism
Female
Humans

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