THE LINGUISTIC INTERGROUP BIAS AS AN IMPLICIT INDICATOR OF PREJUDICE

The Linguistic Intergroup Bias (LIE) is the tendency to describe stere otypic events in more abstract terms than counterstereotypic events. W e examined whether a paper-and-pencil measure based on the LIE could b e used as an implicit indicator of prejudice. Experiment 1 demonstrate d that a measure of implicit racial prejudice based on the LIE predict ed whether subjects evaluated an African-American or a Caucasian as th reatening. Experiment 2 extended this finding with indirect measures o f threat. In both of these experiments, an explicit measure of prejudi ce failed to predict subjects' evaluations. Experiment 3 demonstrated that a measure of implicit gender prejudice based on the LIE was corre lated with an implicit prejudice measure based on biased attributional processing. Across these three experiments, implicit and explicit mea sures of prejudice were largely uncorrelated. (C) 1997 Academic Press.