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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Implicit Bias Research

Background:

  • Approach-avoidance instructions can implicitly shape preferences.
  • The influence of relational information in these instructions is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if relational information in approach-avoidance instructions affects implicit evaluation.
  • To compare the impact of self-agent versus stimulus-agent instructions on implicit preferences.

Main Methods:

  • Participants received either self-agent (participant moves stimuli) or stimulus-agent (stimuli move towards/away from participant) instructions.
  • Implicit evaluations of non-existent words were measured following these instructions.

Main Results:

  • Self-agent instructions led to significantly stronger effects on implicit evaluations compared to stimulus-agent instructions.
  • The findings indicate a differential impact based on the agent performing the action.

Conclusions:

  • Propositional processes are crucial for understanding how approach-avoidance instructions influence implicit evaluation.
  • The way instructions are framed (who is the agent) matters for implicit attitude formation.