February 15, 2008


Project Implicit: Presidential Candidates Task

It is well known that people don’t always ‘speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.

I am aware of the possibility of encountering interpretations of my IAT performance with which I may not agree. Knowing this, I wish to proceed with the Presidential Candidates task. 

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posted by Deron Bauman in politics, psychology 

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7 Responses to “Project Implicit: Presidential Candidates Task”

  1. Deron Bauman on February 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    my results were spot on.

  2. Andrew Simone on February 15th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    mine wasn’t, but then I am on the fence about a number of things.

  3. Deron Bauman on February 15th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    do you mind sharing how yours came out?

    I had obama at the very top, clinton in the top third, mccain and huckabee near the top of the bottom half.

  4. Andrew Simone on February 15th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    not at all.

    I had Clinton on near very top, then mccain, huckabee and then obama grouped closely in the middle.

    I am not sure if I’d vote democrat but I certainly won’t vote clinton. I learned my lesson, two relatives in office in close succession is not a good idea.

  5. salvo on February 15th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    I couldn’t get past the screen where I had to give information about myself.

  6. Rick Neece on February 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    Even though I answered I’d vote clinton, and that I did in the primary, my score showed Obama way above everyone else and clinton was almost halfway down, just above huck and mac, who, interestingly, were on a par.

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