Increasing Your Cultural Competence

You have completed the study.

You have completed the study. The categorization task you completed is called the Single Category Implicit Association Test (SC-IAT). The task assesses associations between concepts by measuring how quickly a person can categorize social groups with attributes. The test often reveals associations that are different than one's conscious beliefs. The purpose of this study is to examine people's automatic associations between feminism vs. traditional values and good words. Your results from the Single Category Implicit Association Test you completed are reported below:

Your data suggest a neutral automatic association between traditional values versus feminism and good.

Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic associations may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no preference'. How implicit associations affect our judgments and behaviors is not well understood. Also, the score described above may be influenced by a number of variables including your familiarity with the categories and the particular items used to represent the categories. As such, the score should serve as an opportunity for self-reflection, not as a definitive assessment of your implicit thoughts or feelings. This and future research will clarify the way in which implicit thinking and feelings affects our perception, judgment, and action.

If you have unanswered questions about the task, please review  background information . Thanks again for your participation. If you have any questions or comments about this study please email the lead investigator, [Jordan Axt] ( [[email protected]] ).