TY - JOUR
T1 - Faking revisited
T2 - Exerting strategic control over performance on the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure
AU - Hughes, Sean
AU - Hussey, Ian
AU - Corrigan, Bethany
AU - Jolie, Katie
AU - Murphy, Carol
AU - Barnes-Holmes, Dermot
PY - 2016/10/14
Y1 - 2016/10/14
N2 - Across four studies, we demonstrate that effects obtained from the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure, like those obtained from other indirect procedures, are not impervious to strategic manipulation. In experiment 1, we found that merely informing participants to “fake” their performance without providing a concrete strategy to do so did not eliminate, reverse, or in any way alter the obtained outcomes. However, when those same instructions orientated attention toward the core parameters of the task, participants spontaneously derived a strategy that allowed them to eliminate their effects (experiment 2). When the participants were provided with a viable response strategy, they successfully reversed the direction of their overall Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure effect (experiment 3). By refining the nature of those instructions, we managed to target and alter individual trial-type effects in isolation with some success (experiment 4).
AB - Across four studies, we demonstrate that effects obtained from the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure, like those obtained from other indirect procedures, are not impervious to strategic manipulation. In experiment 1, we found that merely informing participants to “fake” their performance without providing a concrete strategy to do so did not eliminate, reverse, or in any way alter the obtained outcomes. However, when those same instructions orientated attention toward the core parameters of the task, participants spontaneously derived a strategy that allowed them to eliminate their effects (experiment 2). When the participants were provided with a viable response strategy, they successfully reversed the direction of their overall Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure effect (experiment 3). By refining the nature of those instructions, we managed to target and alter individual trial-type effects in isolation with some success (experiment 4).
KW - attitudes
KW - disgust
KW - faking
KW - IRAP
KW - race
KW - sexual
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84991508728&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/faking-revisited-exerting-strategic-control-over-performance-on-t
U2 - 10.1002/ejsp.2207
DO - 10.1002/ejsp.2207
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84991508728
SN - 0046-2772
VL - 46
SP - 632
EP - 648
JO - European Journal of Social Psychology
JF - European Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 5
ER -