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ArticleBehavior research methods2024

Testing the automaticity features of the affect misattribution procedure: The roles of awareness and intentionality.

Benedek Kurdi, David E Melnikoff, Jason W Hannay, Arın Korkmaz, Kent M Lee, Emily Ritchie, Nicholas Surdel, Heidi A Vuletich, Xin Yang, B Keith Payne and 1 more

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Benedek KurdiDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. kurdi@illinois.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5000-0584
David E MelnikoffDepartment of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Jason W HannayDepartment of Psychology, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, USA.
Arın KorkmazDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Kent M LeeDepartment of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Emily RitchieDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Nicholas SurdelDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Heidi A VuletichDepartment of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
Xin YangDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
B Keith PayneDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Melissa J FergusonDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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The affect misattribution procedure (AMP) is a measure of implicit evaluations, designed to index the automatic retrieval of evaluative knowledge. The AMP effect consists in participants evaluating neutral target stimuli positively when preceded by positive primes and negatively when preceded by negative primes. After multiple prior tests of intentionality, Hughes et al. (Behav Res Methods 55(4):1558-1586, 2023) examined the role of awareness in the AMP and found that AMP effects were larger when participants indicated that their response was influenced by the prime than when they did not. Here we report seven experiments (six preregistered; N = 2350) in which we vary the methodological features of the AMP to better understand this awareness effect. In Experiments 1-4, we establish variability in the magnitude of the awareness effect in response to variations in the AMP procedure. By introducing further modifications to the AMP procedure, Experiments 5-7 suggest an alternative explanation of the awareness effect, namely that awareness can be the outcome, rather than the cause, of evaluative congruency between primes and responses: Awareness effects emerged even when awareness could not have contributed to AMP effects, including when participants judged influence awareness for third parties or primes were presented post hoc. Finally, increasing the evaluative strength of the primes increased participants' tendency to misattribute AMP effects to the influence of target stimuli. Together, the present findings suggest that AMP effects can create awareness effects rather than vice versa and support the AMP's construct validity as a measure of unintentional evaluations of which participants are also potentially unaware.

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AwarenessIntentionAdolescentAdultAffectFemaleHumansMaleReaction TimeYoung AdultAffect misattribution procedureAutomaticityAwarenessImplicit evaluationsIntentionality

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