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Original Article

The Category-Focus Implicit Association Test

1It is journal policy that submissions coauthored by a current editor are handled by a guest editor. We thank Ulrich Wagner, who handled the current manuscript, for his efforts.

Published Online:May 10, 2010https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000015

Abstract

We propose the Category-Focus IAT (CF-IAT) as an instrument to measure the implicit associations of single concepts. The CF-IAT directs respondents’ attention to a subset of the experimental materials. In a first study using the CF-IAT, Chilean adolescents (N = 49), members of either the indigenous minority (Mapuche) or the nonindigenous majority, completed CF-IATs assessing implicit attitudes toward these groups. Results revealed, in both groups, a neutral implicit evaluation of the ingroup, but a negative implicit evaluation of the outgroup. Process evidence suggests that the CF-IAT’s manipulation of attentional focus was successful.

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