Relations among the implicit association test, discriminatory behavior, and explicit measures of racial attitudes

Heretofore, no research has shown that meaningful variability on the Implic it Association Test (IAT) relates to intergroup discrimination or to explic it measures of prejudice. In the current study, White undergraduates intera cted separately with White and Black experimenters, and their behavior duri ng these social interactions was assessed by trained judges and by the expe rimenters themselves. The participants also completed explicit measures of racial prejudice and a race IAT. As predicted, those who revealed stronger negative attitudes toward Blacks (vs Whites) on the IAT had more negative s ocial interactions with a Black (vs a White) experimenter and reported rela tively more negative Black prejudices on explicit measures. The implication s of these results for the IAT and its relations to intergroup discriminati on and to explicit measures of attitudes are discussed. (C) 2001 Academic P ress.