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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • The affect misattribution procedure (AMP) is a common task used to assess implicit affect.
  • Existing explanations often focus on misattribution processes, where affect from a prime influences judgment of a target.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test an informational explanation of the AMP effect.
  • To investigate whether task modifications influence the AMP effect.

Main Methods:

  • Three preregistered experiments were conducted.
  • Participants performed the AMP task with modified response options.

Main Results:

  • Modifying the response options significantly moderated the AMP effect.
  • The effect was observed to be canceled in Experiment 1.
  • The effect was reversed in Experiments 2 and 3.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support an informational explanation of the AMP.
  • The results suggest that participants simplify the task by using prime affect to directly answer a question about the target's valence.
  • The observed effects are difficult to explain through traditional misattribution processes.