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Asian American stereotypes at Project Implicit)

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Your data suggest a slight automatic association for American with Asian American and Foreign with European American.

The sorting test you just took is called the Implicit Association Test (IAT). You categorized Foreign and American images and images of Asian Americans and European Americans.

Disclaimer:The results are not a definitive assessment of your implicit preference. The results may be influenced by variables related to the test (e.g., the category labels or particular items used to represent the categories on the IAT) or the person (e.g., how tired you are). The results are provided for educational purposes only.

How Does The IAT Work?

The IAT measures the strength of associations between concepts (e.g., Asian American and European American) and traits (e.g., American, Foreign). The main idea is that making a response is easier when closely related items share the same response key. We would say that one has an implicit association between Asian American and 'American' relative to European American and 'American' if they are faster to categorize words when Asian American and 'American' share a response key relative to when European American and 'American' share a response key.

Why Should I Care About My IAT Score?

Implicit preferences can predict behavior. Implicit preferences are related to discrimination in hiring and promotion, medical treatment, and decisions related to criminal justice.

What Can I Do About an Implicit Preference That I Do Not Want?

Right now, there is not enough research to say for sure that implicit biases can be reduced, let alone eliminated. Packaged "diversity trainings" generally do not use evidence-based methods of reducing implicit biases. Therefore, we encourage people to instead focus on strategies that deny implicit biases the chance to operate, such as blind auditions and well-designed "structured" decision processes.

Other People's Results

The summary of other people's results shows that most people implicitly associate European American with 'American' (and Asian American with 'Foreign') - i.e., they are faster sorting when European American images and American images go with the same key. Notably, more than 40% of the people included in this graph report associating the two groups equally with American.

What About Order Effects?

One very common question is about the order of the parts of the IAT. The answer is yes, the order in which you take the test can influence on your overall results. But, the effect is very small. So if you first pair Asian American + Foreign and then pair Asian American + American, your results might show just a tiny bit more of an association between Asian American and 'Foreign' than they would be if you had done the reverse pairing first. One way that we try to minimize this order effect is by giving more practice trials before the second pairing than we did before the first pairing. It is also important to know that each participant is randomly assigned to an order, so half of test-takers complete Asian American + foreign and then Asian American + American, and the other half of test-takers get the opposite order.

I Still Have Questions About The IAT

If you have questions about your IAT performance or score, please consult the links at the top of the page, where you will find answers to frequently asked questions, links to related research, and additional information about implicit associations. You may also email us (mailto:[email protected]) with questions or comments.

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