Note of Psychology

Below is the interpretation of your IAT performance, followed by questions about what you think it means. The next page explains the task and has more information such as a summary of what most people show on this IAT.

Your Result

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for European American compared to African American.

The interpretation is described as 'automatic preference for European American' if you responded faster when European American faces and Good words were classified with the same key than when African American faces and Good words were classified with the same key. Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic preference may be described as 'slight', 'moderate', 'strong', or 'little to no preference'. Alternatively, you may have received feedback that 'there were too many errors to determine a result'.

My result was a strong automatic preference for European American compared to African American. I totally agree with this result. This is because when I did this research, I just automatically chose bad words for African American even though it did not say that I need to choose bad words to African American. This shows clearly that I already had implicit bias between European American and African American. In other words, I usually think good and white things related to European American, and band and black things related to African American. However, I actually do not know where this idea of implicit bias came from, and I hope I have chance to study why I think that way and why 70% of people who take this research have same opinion with me. Therefore, I think that the idea of implicit exists on our daily life.