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Area of Science:

  • Developmental psychology
  • Social cognition
  • Implicit bias

Background:

  • Implicit social cognition refers to automatic associations influencing attitudes and behaviors.
  • Understanding the developmental trajectory of implicit social cognition is crucial for addressing societal biases.
  • Previous research has yielded mixed findings on the stability of implicit social cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the developmental stability and variability of implicit self-esteem, implicit gender-science stereotype, and implicit racial attitude.
  • To examine these changes over a two-year period in Chinese adolescents and emerging adults.
  • To determine if changes are consistent across individuals and different types of implicit social cognition.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study design with N = 608 Chinese participants (15- to 27-year-olds).
  • Measurement of implicit self-esteem, implicit gender-science stereotype, and implicit racial attitude over two years.
  • Statistical analyses including rank-order stability and latent change score models.

Main Results:

  • Implicit gender-science stereotype demonstrated high rank-order stability (r = .75).
  • Implicit self-esteem (r = .16) and implicit racial attitude (r = .19) showed low stability.
  • Mean levels of implicit self-esteem decreased, while gender-science stereotype and racial attitude remained stable. Individual changes were heterogeneous across all three domains.

Conclusions:

  • Implicit social cognition is developmentally both variable and stable, with significant individual differences.
  • The degree of stability and variability differs across individuals and specific domains of social cognition.
  • Findings highlight the complex developmental nature of implicit biases and attitudes in young people.