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  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Attitude Formation

Background:

  • Implicit attitudes, often unconscious, can influence behavior.
  • Metacognitive inferences, or thoughts about one's own thoughts, play a role in attitude expression.
  • The link between implicit bias and explicit prejudice is complex and influenced by self-perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how metacognitive inferences about attitude ownership impact the correspondence between implicit and explicit attitudes.
  • To examine the moderating role of self-esteem in the relationship between ownership inferences and implicit-explicit attitude correspondence.
  • To determine if subjective ownership of implicit attitudes can predict explicit prejudice.

Main Methods:

  • Three studies were conducted, involving manipulation and measurement of ownership inferences for implicit attitudes.
  • Participants were assigned to construe implicit attitudes as 'owned' or 'disowned' (Study 1).
  • Ownership, self-esteem, and implicit-explicit attitude correspondence were measured (Studies 2 & 3).

Main Results:

  • Construing implicit attitudes as 'owned' increased implicit-explicit attitude correspondence.
  • Higher ownership for implicit bias was linked to greater correspondence, especially in individuals with high self-esteem.
  • The influence of ownership metacognitions on attitude correspondence was significant only for those with high self-esteem.

Conclusions:

  • Subjective inferences about the ownership of implicit attitudes significantly affect explicit prejudice.
  • Self-esteem moderates the impact of ownership metacognitions on the link between implicit bias and explicit attitudes.
  • Understanding metacognitive ownership is crucial for addressing the conversion of implicit bias into explicit prejudice.