Implicit Measures of Attitudes and Political Voting Behavior

How andWhy Implicit Attitudes Should Affect Voting

Thisarticle provides a foundation for understanding the role of implicit biases in political behavior, particularly implicit racial attitudes and voting behavior. Although racial attitudes have rarely played a major direct role in American presidential politics until 2008, numerous local, state, and federal elections are held every year in the United States that involve minority candidates. As ...

An Exploration of Implicit Attitudes Towards Robots Using Implicit Measures

Given the importance of setting accurate expectations of robot capabilities in humans, we explore how people form implicit competence judgments toward a robot over a prolonged interaction, and how durable those implicit judgments are. We created a live interaction between a robot deli cashier and a human customer. The robot displays a competent behavior followed by: another competent behavior (...

Correction: Decisions among the Undecided: Implicit Attitudes Predict Future Voting Behavior of Undecided Voters

Implicit attitudes have been suggested as a key to unlock the hidden preferences of undecided voters. Past research, however, offered mixed support for this hypothesis. The present research used a large nationally representative sample and a longitudinal design to examine the predictive utility of implicit and explicit attitude measures in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. In our analyses, e...

Do Implicit Attitudes Predict Actual Voting Behavior Particularly for Undecided Voters?

The prediction of voting behavior of undecided voters poses a challenge to psychologists and pollsters. Recently, researchers argued that implicit attitudes would predict voting behavior particularly for undecided voters whereas explicit attitudes would predict voting behavior particularly for decided voters. We tested this assumption in two studies in two countries with distinct political syst...

Implicit attitudes: meaning, measurement, and synergy with political science