Understand The Difference Between Explicit And Implicit Attitudes

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• How do you understand the difference between implicit and explicit attitudes? Is this a meaningful difference?
 Implicit attitudes are ones for which individuals lack awareness while explicit attitudes are conscious.
 Implicit attitudes differ from explicit attitudes in the way they are expressed.
 Implicit measures reflect association to which the individual lacks introspective access while explicit are deliberately formed and are easy to self-report.
• One explanation of implicit measures is that they indicate associations- between concepts that have been activated and other concepts, affects, behavioral scripts, etc. that are associated with them. Does this indicate that you “believe” in this association?
 It is important to distinguish
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 Nonverbal behaviors emitted by Whites in interpersonal settings, which may become exacerbated by concerns seeming racists may reflect underlying negative affective responses that are often automatic and difficult to control.
 The unconscious implicit biases may erode trust between group members and indirectly hinder team performance.
• Implicit messages affect the performance of people who are stereotyped (stereotype threat). Given this, what interventions would be effective to prevent the effects of prejudice? How would this differ for prejudice that is perceived, whether or not it is "real"?
 The Common Ingroup Identity Model is an intervention approach that harnesses social categorization to reduce intergroup bias where members of different groups are induced to think of themselves as single superordinate in-group rather than as two separate groups.
 Implicit attitudes and stereotypes can be unlearned or inhibited by well-learned countervailing influences.
 Encourage individuals to better recognize discrepancies between their behavior (what they would do) and their personal standards (what they would do) towards minorities which will subsequently produce motivations to respond without prejudice in the

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