PSYC 473 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Name–Letter Effect, Social Cognition
25 Apr 2013
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Implicit self-esteem refers to a person"s disposition to evaluate themselves in a spontaneous, automatic, or unconscious manner. Found that some people had stable self-esteem while others uctuates/unstable on a day-to-day basis (called them defensive high ). Wanted to see if they would rate the rst letter of their name being liked or disliked. If disliked, they had low implicit self-esteem: implicit association task (iat) tested participants on words that de ne one of two parameters (i. e. not self vs self). When parameters get harder and participants had to put things together mentally that don"t t together, it becomes harder to respond. Subjects put through a self-relevant interview (describe oneself and health) to see if implicit and explicit se may correlate with other variables. Results show that people with low explicit se reported feeling more anxious during interview. People with low implicit se were reported by interviewer to appear more anxious: explicit and implicit se correlated with different things.
