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How to Set Focal Categories for Brief Implicit Association Test? “Good” Is Good, “Bad” Is Not So Good

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, February 2016
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Title
How to Set Focal Categories for Brief Implicit Association Test? “Good” Is Good, “Bad” Is Not So Good
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, February 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00038
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Authors

Yuanyuan Shi, Huajian Cai, Yiqin Alicia Shen, Jing Yang

Abstract

Three studies were conducted to examine the validity of the four versions of BIATs that are supposed to measure the same construct but differ in shared focal category. Study 1 investigated the criterion validity of four BIATs measuring attitudes toward flower versus insect. Study 2 examined the experimental sensitivity of four BIATs by considering attitudes toward induced ingroup versus outgroup. Study 3 examined the predictive power of the four BIATs by investigating attitudes toward the commercial beverages Coke versus Sprite. The findings suggested that for the two attributes "good" and "bad," "good" rather than "bad" proved to be good as a shared focal category; for two targets, so long as they clearly differed in goodness or valence, the "good" rather than "bad" target emerged as good for a shared focal category. Beyond this case, either target worked well. These findings may facilitate the understanding of the BIAT and its future applications.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 1 3%
Unknown 31 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 31%
Student > Master 9 28%
Researcher 4 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 3 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 16 50%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 6%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 4 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 February 2016.
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#4,642,559
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#7,483
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#82,836
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#162
of 473 outputs
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