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- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Taking Stock of Explicit and Implicit Prejudice
- 1 Report from the NSF Conference on Implicit Bias
- Section I What is Implicit Bias and (How) Can We Measure It?
- Section II Do Measures of Implicit Bias Predict Cognition and Behavior?
- Section III Challenges of Research on Implicit Bias
- Section IV Improving Measurement and Theorizing About Implicit Bias
- Section V How to Change Implicit Bias?
- Section VI Explicit Prejudice; Alive and Well?
- Introduction
- 23 A Survey Researcher’s Response to the Implicit Revolution: Listen to What People Say
- 24 A History of the New Racisms: Symbolic Racism, Modern Racism, and Racial Resentment
- 25 The Relations Among Explicit Prejudice Measures: Anti-Black Affect and Perceptions of Value Violation as Predictors of Symbolic Racism and Attitudes toward Racial Policies
- 26 Complexities in the Measurement of Explicit Racial Attitudes
- 27 The Continuing Relevance of Whites’ Explicit Bias – and Reflections on the Tools to Measure It
- Section VII The Public’s (Mis)understanding of Implicit Bias
- Index
- References
23 - A Survey Researcher’s Response to the Implicit Revolution: Listen to What People Say
from Section VI - Explicit Prejudice; Alive and Well?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Taking Stock of Explicit and Implicit Prejudice
- 1 Report from the NSF Conference on Implicit Bias
- Section I What is Implicit Bias and (How) Can We Measure It?
- Section II Do Measures of Implicit Bias Predict Cognition and Behavior?
- Section III Challenges of Research on Implicit Bias
- Section IV Improving Measurement and Theorizing About Implicit Bias
- Section V How to Change Implicit Bias?
- Section VI Explicit Prejudice; Alive and Well?
- Introduction
- 23 A Survey Researcher’s Response to the Implicit Revolution: Listen to What People Say
- 24 A History of the New Racisms: Symbolic Racism, Modern Racism, and Racial Resentment
- 25 The Relations Among Explicit Prejudice Measures: Anti-Black Affect and Perceptions of Value Violation as Predictors of Symbolic Racism and Attitudes toward Racial Policies
- 26 Complexities in the Measurement of Explicit Racial Attitudes
- 27 The Continuing Relevance of Whites’ Explicit Bias – and Reflections on the Tools to Measure It
- Section VII The Public’s (Mis)understanding of Implicit Bias
- Index
- References
Summary
The implicit revolution seems to have arrived with the declaration that “explicit measures are informed by and (possibly) rendered invalid by unconscious cognition.” What is the view from survey research, which has relied on explicit methodology for over a century, and whose methods have extended to the political domain in ways that have changed the landscape of politics in the United States and beyond? One survey researcher weighs in. The overwhelming evidence points to the continuing power of explicit measures to predict voting and behavior. Whether implicit measures can do the same, especially beyond what explicit measures can do, is far more ambiguous. The analysis further raises doubts, as others before have done, as to what exactly implicit measures measure, and particularly questions the co-opting among implicit researchers the word “attitude” when such measures instead represent associations. The conclusion: Keep your torches at home. There is no revolution.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism , pp. 595 - 615Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025