The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: Exploring the Impact of Private Versus Public Contexts and the Response Latency Criterion on Pro-White and Anti-Black Stereotyping Among White Irish Individuals

• Published in: The Psychological record Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 57 - 79
• Main Authors: Barnes-Holmes, Dermot, Murphy, Aisling, Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne, Stewart, Ian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2010; Southern Illinois University Carbondale; The Association for Behavior Analysis International; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: African Americans; Assessment; Association Measures; Attitude Measures; Attitudes; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Beliefs; Bias; Blacks; Coherence; Context Effect; Elaboration; Foreign Countries; Homosexuality; Individual Differences; Ingroups; Ireland; Negative Attitudes; Psychological aspects; Psychology; Racial Attitudes; Racial Bias; Racism; Reaction Time; Resistance (Psychology); Response latency; Social aspects; Social Desirability; Stereotype (Psychology); Stereotypes; Stimuli; Whites; Ireland; racism; Implicit; response latency; adults; assessment context
• ISSN: 0033-2933; 2163-3452
• DOI: 10.1007/BF03395694

The current research comprised two experiments that employed the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a measure of implicit racial attitudes. White Irish participants were exposed to blocks of trials that involved responding in a manner consistent with either a pro-white stereotype or a pro-black stereotype. In Experiment 1, participants completed the IRAP in either a public or private assessment situation. It was hypothesized that implicit pro-white stereotyping would decrease in the public context relative to the private context. The results, however, were not in accordance with this prediction. A second experiment was conducted to determine if requiring participants to respond in a public context but within a shorter timeframe would impact significantly upon implicit stereotyping. The results showed that a reduction in response latency significantly increased ingroup stereotyping. The findings appear to be consistent with the relational elaboration and coherence model.