Are You What You Read? Predicting Implicit Attitudes to Immigration Based on Linguistic Distributional Cues From Newspaper Readership; A Pre-registered Study

The implicit association test (IAT) measures bias towards often controversial topics (e.g., race, religion), while newspapers typically take strong positive/negative stances on such issues. In a pre-registered study, we developed and administered an immigration IAT to readers of the Daily Mail (a ty...

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Main Authors: Dermot Lynott, Michael Walsh, Tony McEnery, Louise Connell, Liam Cross, Kerry O’Brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
IAT
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00842/full