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Focusing Inward: A Timely Yet Daunting Challenge for Clinical Psychological Science 向内聚焦:临床心理科学面临的及时而艰巨的挑战
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2149183
E. Koster, Igor Marchetti, Ivan Grahek
Amir and Bernstein (this issue) propose a dynamical model of internally-directed cognition aimed at explaining the complex interactions between current goals, negative affect, and attentional selection in working memory. They connect the literature on internal attention, working memory, affect, rumination, and mind wandering to propose a formal mathematical model of internally-directed cognition. In this paper, they do not just provide a window on how people become stuck in loops of negative thinking, but they also provide a nice example of how clinical psychological science can move toward more formal theoretical models. In taking such an exciting step, we believe that this work also encounters some of the challenges faced by formal models of maladaptive cognition. Below we discuss some of these issues, not in order to criticize the current work, but to open a discussion, which we feel is paramount as the field of clinical psychology moves in the direction of developing formal theoretical models. In brief, the three main issues are: (1) the proposed model does not build on the existing cognitive models; (2) the model increases rather than decreases the complexity of the phenomenon; (3) there are no standard/alternative frameworks to compare the A2T model to, and it is not clear which kind of data or experiments could corroborate or falsify the model. New models should build on the existing formal models of cognitive processes. The reproducibility crisis in psychology (Open Science Collaboration, 2015; Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn, 2011) has led to significant changes in the way we conduct research, which include preregistration and better statistical methodology (Benjamin et al., 2018; Nosek, Ebersole, DeHaven, & Mellor, 2018). In the slipstream of this movement, a reinvigorated discussion has been opened on the role and current status of theory in psychology (e.g., Fried, 2020; Grahek, Schaller, & Tackett, 2021; Haslbeck, Ryan, Robinaugh, Waldorp, & Borsboom, 2021). Clearly, clinical psychological science has no shortage of rather vague, descriptive theories that are difficult to test and disprove. Many areas of psychology are moving in the direction of developing stronger theories, which could guide experimentation and increase the overall rigor of psychological science. In this context, clinical psychology is faced with the task of creating formal mathematical models of important phenomena, including the ones which the A2T model tackles. This effort, often referred to as computational psychiatry (Huys, Maia, & Frank, 2016; Montague, Dolan, Friston, & Dayan, 2012), is showing a lot of promise. The crucial part of this effort is to develop computational models that are relevant for understanding psychopathology, but also have direct links with the existing formal models from cognitive science. In this way, clinical psychology can build on the existing models, and extend them in order to better understand psychopathology. Such efforts are alread
Amir和Bernstein(本期)提出了一个内定向认知的动态模型,旨在解释工作记忆中当前目标、负面影响和注意选择之间复杂的相互作用。他们将关于内部注意、工作记忆、情感、反刍和走神的文献联系起来,提出了一个内部导向认知的正式数学模型。在这篇论文中,他们不仅为人们如何陷入消极思维的循环提供了一个窗口,而且还为临床心理科学如何走向更正式的理论模型提供了一个很好的例子。在迈出如此激动人心的一步时,我们相信这项工作也遇到了一些适应不良认知的正式模型所面临的挑战。下面我们讨论其中的一些问题,不是为了批评当前的工作,而是为了展开讨论,我们认为这是至关重要的,因为临床心理学领域正朝着发展正式理论模型的方向发展。简而言之,主要存在三个问题:(1)所提出的模型没有建立在现有认知模型的基础上;(2)模型增加而不是降低了现象的复杂性;(3)没有标准/替代框架来比较A2T模型,也不清楚哪种数据或实验可以证实或证伪该模型。新的模型应该建立在现有的认知过程的正式模型之上。心理学中的可重复性危机(Open Science Collaboration, 2015;Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn, 2011)导致我们进行研究的方式发生了重大变化,其中包括预登记和更好的统计方法(Benjamin et al., 2018;Nosek, Ebersole, DeHaven, & Mellor, 2018)。在这一运动的潮流中,关于理论在心理学中的作用和现状的讨论重新活跃起来(例如,Fried, 2020;Grahek, Schaller, & Tackett, 2021;Haslbeck, Ryan, Robinaugh, Waldorp, & Borsboom, 2021)。显然,临床心理科学并不缺乏相当模糊的、描述性的理论,这些理论很难检验和反驳。心理学的许多领域正朝着发展更强有力的理论的方向发展,这些理论可以指导实验,并提高心理学科学的整体严谨性。在这种背景下,临床心理学面临着创建重要现象的形式化数学模型的任务,包括A2T模型所处理的那些。这种努力通常被称为计算精神病学(Huys, Maia, & Frank, 2016;蒙塔古,多兰,弗里斯顿,&达扬,2012),显示出很大的希望。这项工作的关键部分是开发与理解精神病理学相关的计算模型,但也与认知科学的现有正式模型有直接联系。通过这种方式,临床心理学可以在现有模型的基础上进行扩展,从而更好地理解精神病理学。这样的努力已经出现在许多领域,包括决策(Huys, Daw, & Dayan, 2015),学习(Brown等人,2021),工作记忆(Collins, Albrecht, Waltz, Gold, & Frank, 2017)和认知控制(Dillon等人,2015;Grahek, Shenhav, Musslick, Krebs, & Koster, 2019)。这是A2T车型在进一步开发中需要做最多工作的地方。虽然作者提到了一些映射到其模型组件上的模型(Hazy et al., 2007),但目前所有这些组件都是在非常高的水平上建模的。虽然这是一个必要且伟大的第一步,但该模型将受益于整合现有的注意力控制、工作记忆和情感模型的架构。除非做到这一点,否则我们将失去在规范框架内进行累积科学研究和对临床过程形成综合理解的机会。在过去的几年里,抑郁症的认知控制领域提出了这一问题,临床心理科学理论的发展没有关注认知控制的基本认知实验科学(Grahek, Everaert, Krebs, & Koster, 2018)。
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Clarifying Internally-Directed Cognition: A Commentary on the Attention to Thoughts Model 澄清内部指向性认知——关注思维模式述评
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2141005
David R. Vago, N. Farb, R. N. Spreng
David R. Vago , Norman Farb , and R. Nathan Spreng Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Contemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada; Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Montreal Neurological Institute, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Verdun, Canada; McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Too Much Flexibility in a Dynamical Model of Repetitive Negative Thinking? 重复消极思维的动态模型过于灵活?
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2149195
Marieke K. van Vugt, H. Jamalabadi
Abstract Iftach and Bernstein propose a dynamical system model of task-unrelated thought that is designed to explain how repetitive negative thinking (RNT) and maladaptive internally-directed cognition more generally arises from attentional biases, working memory, and negative affect. They show that specifically during a period of low task demands, it is easier for negative affect to grab resources and take over with RNT. They also postulate that for individuals with high cognitive reactivity, this tendency for RNT to take over is increased. We argue this paper is an important move forward toward understanding in what circumstances RNT takes over, but also that the model is not yet sufficiently “formalized.” Specifically, we notice excessive levels of flexibility and redundancy that could undermine the explainability of the model. Moreover, the likelihood of negative thinking, as implemented in the proposed model, relies heavily on working memory capacity. In response to this observation, we give suggestions for how the parametrization of this model could be done in a more principled manner. We think such an analysis paves the way for more principled computational modeling of RNT which can be applied to describing empirical data and eventually, to inform decision-making in clinical settings.
摘要Iftach和Bernstein提出了一个任务无关思维的动力系统模型,旨在解释重复性消极思维(RNT)和适应不良的内部定向认知通常是如何由注意力偏见、工作记忆和负面影响引起的。他们表明,特别是在任务需求较低的时期,负面影响更容易攫取资源并接管RNT。他们还假设,对于认知反应性高的个体来说,RNT接管的趋势会增加。我们认为,这篇论文是朝着理解RNT在什么情况下接管的方向迈出的重要一步,但也表明该模型尚未充分“形式化”。具体而言,我们注意到过度的灵活性和冗余可能会破坏模型的可解释性。此外,在所提出的模型中,消极思维的可能性在很大程度上取决于工作记忆能力。针对这一观察结果,我们提出了如何以更有原则的方式对该模型进行参数化的建议。我们认为,这样的分析为更原则的RNT计算建模铺平了道路,该模型可用于描述经验数据,并最终为临床环境中的决策提供信息。
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Implicit Bias as Automatic Behavior 内隐偏见是一种自动行为
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2106764
Kate A. Ratliff, C. Smith
Researchers interested in implicit bias agree that no one agrees what implicit bias is. Gawronski, Ledgerwood, and Eastwick (this issue) join a spate of scholars calling for better conceptual clarity around what it means for a construct or a measure to be implicit (Corneille & H€ utter, 2020; Fazio, Granados Samatoa, Boggs, & Ladanyi, 2022; Schmader, Dennehy, & Baron, 2022; Van Dessel et al., 2020). Some argue we should do away with the term entirely (Corneille & H€ utter, 2020), and others argue that authors simply need to do a better job defining how they are idiosyncratically using the term each time they use it (Greenwald & Lai, 2020). In their target article, Gawronski et al. argue for a fundamental redefinition of what it means for bias to be implicit. More specifically, they argue that implicit bias (IB) and bias on implicit measures (BIM) are conceptually and empirically distinct, and that BIM (defined as “effects of social category membership on behavioral responses captured by measurement instruments conventionally describe as implicit”) should not be treated as an instance of IB (defined as “behavioral responses influenced by social category cues when respondents are unaware of the effect of social category cues on their behavioral responses”). We agree that the time has come for our definition of implicit to be revamped in light of new findings. In fact, it is past time; we co-chaired a symposium titled “What is implicit about implicit attitudes?” at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s annual meeting in 2009, more than a decade ago. And we applaud the authors of the target article for taking a bold step toward making a change. Further, we agree with them that bias is best defined as a behavioral phenomenon rather than a latent mental construct. This is not a statement we make lightly; it has required some serious scholarly contemplation of the current state of the literature and some serious non-scholarly contemplation of our own egos to reach this conclusion. For some time now we, like most others, have described implicit bias as something that people have–e.g., participants have an implicit bias favoring one novel individual over another (Ratliff & Nosek, 2011), have an implicit preference favoring White over Black Americans (Chen & Ratliff, 2018), or have an implicit positive or negative attitude toward feminists (Redford, Howell, Meijs, & Ratliff, 2018). Many of us are quite invested in this way of thinking. And change is hard! But we recognize that we gain a lot by taking this more functional approach to bias. Most notably, a functional approach allows researchers to circumvent the perplexing situation of using the same name for construct and measure. Further, many of us working in this area are doing so because we hope to provide insights through which people can change their behavior in order to reduce inequality on real life issues that matter. Given that the problem of bias is a behavioral problem (De Houwer,
对隐性偏见感兴趣的研究人员一致认为,没有人同意什么是隐性偏见,和Eastwick(本期)加入了一系列学者的行列,呼吁更好地从概念上澄清隐含的结构或措施的含义(Cornelle&H€utter,2020;Fazio、Granados-Samatoa、Boggs和Ladanyi,2022;Schmader、Dennehy和Baron,2022;Van Dessel等人,2020)。一些人认为我们应该完全废除这个词(Cornelle&H€utter,2020),另一些人则认为,作者只需要更好地定义他们每次使用这个词时是如何独特地使用这个词的(Greenwald&Lai,2020)。在他们的目标文章中,Gawronski等人主张从根本上重新定义隐性偏见的含义。更具体地说,他们认为内隐偏见(IB)和对内隐测量的偏见(BIM)在概念和经验上是不同的,BIM(定义为“社会类别成员资格对测量仪器捕捉到的行为反应的影响,通常被描述为隐含的”)不应被视为IB的一个例子(定义为:“当受访者不知道社会类别线索对其行为反应的影响时,受社会类别线索影响的行为反应”)。我们一致认为,现在是时候根据新的发现来修改我们对隐性的定义了。事实上,时间已经过去了;在十多年前的2009年人格与社会心理学学会年会上,我们共同主持了一个题为“内隐态度的内隐是什么?”的研讨会。我们赞扬目标文章的作者在做出改变方面迈出了大胆的一步。此外,我们同意他们的观点,即偏见最好被定义为一种行为现象,而不是一种潜在的心理结构。这不是我们轻率的声明;要得出这个结论,需要对文学的现状进行一些严肃的学术思考,也需要对我们自己的自我进行一些严肃而非学术的思考。一段时间以来,我们和大多数其他人一样,将内隐偏见描述为人们所具有的东西——例如,参与者对一个小说个体比对另一个有内隐偏见(Ratliff&Nosek,2011),对白人比对美国黑人有内隐偏好(Chen和Ratliff,2018),或者对女权主义者有隐含的积极或消极态度(Redford,Howell,Meijs,&Ratliff,2018)。我们中的许多人都对这种思维方式非常投入。改变很难!但我们认识到,通过采取这种更具功能性的方法来解决偏见,我们收获了很多。最值得注意的是,功能方法使研究人员能够避免使用相同名称进行构建和测量的令人困惑的情况。此外,我们许多在这一领域工作的人之所以这样做,是因为我们希望提供见解,让人们能够改变自己的行为,以减少现实生活中重要问题上的不平等。鉴于偏见问题是一个行为问题(De Houwer,2019),用行为术语来定义偏见是有意义的。因此,让我们同意将偏见定义为社会类别线索对行为反应的影响。然而,我们仍然面临着偏见隐含的问题。为此,我们想对目标文章提出两个关切。首先,如果作者提出BIM不一定应被视为IB的一个例子,我们会同意;但我们不同意强烈的语言暗示BIM永远不应该被视为IB的一个例子;第二,我们不同意意识(原作者可与意识互换使用)是区分隐性偏见和显性偏见的唯一或最佳因素。意识是一件混乱的事情,几乎不可能描述任何给定的效果是无意识的还是有意识的,因为大多数,也许所有,都有这两者的方面。相反,我们主张基于自动性的特征来区分内隐和外显偏见(Moors&De Houwer,2006)。
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Decomposing Implicit Bias 分解隐式偏差
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2106758
I. Krajbich
In their article, “Implicit Bias 61⁄4 Bias on Implicit Measures,” Gawronski, Ledgerwood, & Eastwick (this issue) characterize implicit bias and then discuss how the implicit association test (IAT) (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) fails to meet the requirements of a test for implicit bias. One of the central arguments is that people can predict their behavior on the IAT, indicating awareness of their implicit bias. However, part of the definition of implicit bias is that it occurs outside of awareness. In my commentary I discuss the thorny issue of awareness and suggest a more pragmatic definition of implicit bias that may help resolve the discord. I also discuss computational-modeling and process-tracing tools that allow us to decompose decisions in ways that can identify the mechanisms underlying behavioral biases. Together, hopefully these approaches will yield better insight into the nature of implicit bias.
Gawronski, Ledgerwood, & Eastwick(本期)在他们的文章“内隐偏差61 / 4对内隐测量的偏差”中描述了内隐偏差,然后讨论了内隐关联测试(IAT) (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998)如何不能满足内隐偏差测试的要求。其中一个核心论点是,人们可以预测他们在IAT中的行为,表明他们意识到自己的内隐偏见。然而,内隐偏见的部分定义是它发生在意识之外。在我的评论中,我讨论了棘手的意识问题,并提出了一个更务实的隐性偏见定义,这可能有助于解决分歧。我还讨论了计算建模和过程跟踪工具,这些工具允许我们以能够识别行为偏差背后的机制的方式分解决策。总之,希望这些方法能更好地洞察内隐偏见的本质。
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Beyond Awareness: The Many Forms of Implicit Bias and Its Implications 超越意识:内隐偏见的多种形式及其启示
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2106752
T. Schmader, Carmelle Bareket-Shavit, A. Baron
In 1969, in his address to the American Psychological Association, George Miller implored the field of psychology to give its science away. For their part, the general public has shown itself to have a thirst for those ideas that might be useful to solving some of our most intractable social problems. Implicit bias is one of those good ideas that has transcended the laboratory, in part because of the positive efforts of Project Implicit (https://implicit.harvard.edu). For example, during her failed election campaign in 2016, Hilary Clinton declared, “We all have implicit biases” (Merica, 2016). The world is looking to our field to better understand if implicit bias is a dangerous and prevalent pathogen or a mildly annoying but mostly benign curiosity. It hasn’t helped that within the ivory tower, there is no clear consensus on how to best define the construct (Corneille & H€ utter, 2020). Into this context, Gawronski, Ledgerwood, and Eastwick (this issue; GLE) introduce their target article. In the title of their article, GLE make a simple plea to scholars in the field: Whatever it is that implicit measures of stereotypes and attitudes capture, we should not label this implicit bias (IB). We completely agree with this conclusion and would like to happily sign our names to the petition to refrain from this usage moving forward (just as we would similarly agree that a measure of any construct and the construct itself are not one in the same). In fact, we made a similar argument in a recent publication stating, “too often the terms ‘implicit associations’ (the strength of the associations between concepts in the mind, measured indirectly by the IAT) and ‘implicit bias’ (disparate treatment that can result from one’s implicit associations with social groups) are used isomorphically (cf. De Houwer, 2019)” (see Pitfall #3 of Schmader, Dennehy, & Baron, 2022). In that article, two of us argued for having greater conceptual clarity over what IB is and outlined different pathways by which bias unfolds, so that interventionists designing tools to mitigate the harms from bias have an effective playbook to work from. In this commentary, we focus our analysis on GLE’s general definition that IB “captures the idea that people may behave in a biased way without being aware that their behavior is biased” (Gawronski et al., this issue, p. 139). We agree with GLE’s focus on bias as behavior, not on the individual differences assessed with implicit measures. We suggest, however, that this particular definition of IB must go further to clarify the precise role of awareness in the delineation of IB. We argue that any clear conceptualization of bias needs to recognize the process by which stereotypes and attitudes in mind can lead to biased behavior that does harm to others. Drawing from and extending a recently published bias typology (Schmader et al., 2022), we will see that awareness is only one component needed to distinguish implicit from explicit (or intentional
1969年,乔治·米勒在向美国心理协会发表的演讲中恳求心理学界放弃其科学。就他们而言,公众已经表现出对那些可能有助于解决我们一些最棘手的社会问题的想法的渴望。隐性偏见是那些超越实验室的好想法之一,部分原因是隐性项目的积极努力(https://implicit.harvard.edu)。例如,希拉里·克林顿在2016年竞选失败期间宣称,“我们都有隐性偏见”(Merica,2016)。全世界都在关注我们的领域,以更好地了解隐性偏见是一种危险而普遍的病原体,还是一种稍微令人讨厌但大多是善意的好奇心。在象牙塔里,对于如何最好地定义这个结构没有明确的共识,这并没有起到任何作用(Cornelle&H€utter,2020)。在此背景下,Gawronski、Ledgerwood和Eastwick(本期;GLE)介绍了他们的目标文章。在他们文章的标题中,GLE向该领域的学者提出了一个简单的呼吁:无论刻板印象和态度的隐含衡量标准是什么,我们都不应该给这种隐含偏见(IB)贴上标签。我们完全同意这一结论,并很乐意在请愿书上签名,以避免这种用法继续下去(就像我们同样同意任何构造的度量和构造本身都不一样)。事实上,我们在最近的一份出版物中提出了类似的论点,“‘内隐联想’(通过IAT间接测量的头脑中概念之间的联想强度)和‘内隐偏见’(一个人与社会群体的内隐联想可能导致的不同待遇)这两个术语经常被同构地使用(参见De Houwer,2019)”(见Schmader、Dennehy和Baron的Pitfall#3,2022)。在那篇文章中,我们两人主张对什么是IB有更清晰的概念,并概述了偏见产生的不同途径,以便设计减轻偏见危害的工具的干预主义者有一个有效的行动手册。在这篇评论中,我们将分析重点放在GLE的一般定义上,即IB“抓住了人们可能在没有意识到自己的行为有偏见的情况下以有偏见的方式行事的想法”(Gawronski等人,本期,第139页)。我们同意GLE关注的是作为行为的偏见,而不是用内隐测量评估的个体差异。然而,我们建议,IB的这一特定定义必须进一步澄清意识在IB描述中的确切作用。我们认为,任何对偏见的明确概念化都需要认识到,脑海中的刻板印象和态度可能导致对他人造成伤害的偏见行为。根据最近发表的偏见类型学(Schmader et al.,2022),我们将看到,意识只是区分隐性偏见和显性(或故意)偏见所需的一个组成部分,即使在这些类别中,偏见也可以采取不同的形式,人们可以意识到过程的某些部分,但不能意识到其他部分。因此,与GLE声称IB的定义非常明确相反,我们认为还有一些模糊之处需要更多的关注。
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Reflections on the Difference Between Implicit Bias and Bias on Implicit Measures 关于内隐偏差与内隐测量偏差差异的思考
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2115729
Bertram Gawronski, A. Ledgerwood, Paul W. Eastwick
We are pleased about the considerable interest in our target article and that there is overwhelming agreement with our central thesis that, if the term implicit is understood as unconscious in reference to bias, implicit bias (IB) should not be equated with bias on implicit measures (BIM) (Cesario, this issue; Corneille & B ena, this issue; Cyrus-Lai et al., this issue; De Houwer & Boddez, this issue; Dovidio & Kunst, this issue; Melnikoff & Kurdi, this issue; Norman & Chen, this issue; Olson & Gill, this issue; Schmader et al., this issue; but see Krajbich, this issue; Ratliff & Smith, this issue). We are also grateful for the insightful commentaries, which continue to advance the field’s thinking on this topic. The comments inspired us to think further about the relation between IB and BIM as well as the implications of a clear distinction between the two. In the current reply, we build on these comments, respond to some critical questions, and clarify some arguments that were insufficiently clear in our target article. Before doing so, we would like to express our appreciation for the extreme thoughtfulness of the commentaries, every single one of which deserves their own detailed response. For the purpose of this reply, we will focus on recurring themes and individual points that we deem most important for moving forward. We start our reply with basic questions about the concept of bias, including the difference between behavioral effects and explanatory mental constructs, the role of social context, goals, and values in evaluating instances of bias, and issues pertaining to the role of social category cues in biased behavior. Expanding on the analysis of the bias construct, the next sections address questions related to the implicitness of bias, including the presumed unconsciousness of BIM, methodological difficulties of studying unconscious effects, and the implications of a broader interpretation of implicit as automatic. The next sections again build on the discussions in the preceding sections, addressing questions about the presumed significance of IB research for understanding societal disparities and the value of BIM research if IB is treated as distinct from BIM. The final section presents our general conclusions from the conversation about our target article and several suggestions on how to move forward. Reflections on Bias
我们很高兴对我们的目标文章有相当大的兴趣,并且与我们的中心论点达成了压倒性的一致意见,即如果隐式一词在提及偏见时被理解为无意识的,隐性偏见(IB)不应等同于对隐性测量的偏见(BIM)(Cesario,本期;Cornelle和B ena,本期,Cyrus Lai等人,本期、De Houwer和Boddez,本期。我们也感谢富有见地的评论,这些评论继续推动该领域对这一主题的思考。这些评论启发我们进一步思考IB和BIM之间的关系,以及两者之间明确区别的含义。在目前的答复中,我们以这些评论为基础,回答了一些关键问题,并澄清了目标文章中不够明确的一些论点。在这样做之前,我们要对评论的极端周到表示赞赏,每一个评论都应该得到详细的回应。为了本答复的目的,我们将集中讨论我们认为对向前发展最重要的反复出现的主题和个别要点。我们从关于偏见概念的基本问题开始回答,包括行为效应和解释性心理结构之间的差异,社会背景、目标和价值观在评估偏见实例中的作用,以及与社会类别线索在偏见行为中的作用有关的问题。在对偏见结构分析的基础上,下一节将讨论与偏见隐含性相关的问题,包括BIM的假定无意识、研究无意识效应的方法学困难,以及将内隐解释为自动的含义。下一节再次以前几节的讨论为基础,讨论IB研究对理解社会差异的假定意义,以及如果IB与BIM不同,则BIM研究的价值等问题。最后一节介绍了我们从关于目标文章的对话中得出的一般结论,以及关于如何前进的几点建议。关于偏见的思考
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The “Implicit Bias” Wording Is a Relic. Let’s Move On and Study Unconscious Social Categorization Effects “隐性偏见”是一种遗迹。让我们继续研究无意识的社会分类效应
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2106754
O. Corneille, J. Béna
In their article, Gawronski, Ledgerwood, and Eastwick (this issue; hereafter, GLE) explain why “implicit bias” (defined as the unconscious effect of social category cues on behavioral responses) should not be confused with “bias on implicit measures.” We see much value in their clarification and agree with their bleak assessment of research on implicit tasks when they are said to measure “implicit bias” (hereafter “implicit measures of bias”), the most prominent of which is the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998). The article opens with a puzzling statement, though. GLE celebrate the educational value of “implicit measures of bias”: “implicit measures of bias deserve enormous credit for providing a tool for the widespread dissemination of the idea that people can be biased without being aware of it” (Gawronski et al., this issue, p. 139). However, while reading their article, it becomes quickly clear (1) that “implicit measures of bias” have little conceptual consistency, and (2) that critical assumptions underlying their use and interpretation are unsubstantiated (e.g., the assumption that these tasks tap into unconscious mental contents or hold a special relation to associative learning). GLE also note that social cognition research has barely started to study the unconsciousness of category-driven biases beyond responses entered on computer keyboards. It is an open secret that we do not clearly know how to interpret outcomes from “implicit measures of bias” (see, e.g., Fiedler, Messner & Bluemke, 2006). The managers of Project Implicit, the largest educational and researchoriented platform conventionally said to study “implicit biases” feature an honest disclaimer on the website of the platform: the designers of the task, their promoters, and their associated institutions “make no claim for the validity” of their suggested interpretations of IAT scores (https:// implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html). If we want to be honest about it, we do not know much which and when social behaviors are driven by an unconscious influence of social categories either. If social cognition research relied on tasks and study settings that are detached from “implicit biases” (as GLE define them), then this begs the question of how accurate and profitable the education around this notion has been. As a case in point, introductory psychology textbooks generally fail to accurately portray the most prominent “implicit measure of bias” (Bartels & Schoenrade, 2022). We suspect that extraacademic education does not fare better. In the present commentary, we speculate on how we got here, we discuss how bad it can get when scientists conflate science with mere opinions, and we propose ways forward. We argue that strong research on “implicit bias” can finally see the light if drastic changes are implemented in social cognition research, starting with radical terminological changes.
Gawronski、Ledgerwood和Eastwick(本期;以下简称GLE)在他们的文章中解释了为什么“内隐偏见”(定义为社会类别线索对行为反应的无意识影响)不应与“内隐测量的偏见”混淆。“我们从他们的澄清中看到了很大的价值,并同意他们对内隐任务研究的悲观评估,因为据说他们测量“内隐偏见”(以下简称“偏见的内隐测量”),其中最突出的是内隐联想测试(IAT;Greenwald、McGhee和Schwartz,1998)。不过,这篇文章的开头有一句令人费解的话。GLE赞扬“隐性偏见衡量标准”的教育价值:“隐性偏见测量标准为广泛传播人们可能在没有意识到的情况下存在偏见的观点提供了工具,值得高度赞扬”(Gawronski等人,本期,第139页)。然而,在阅读他们的文章时,很快就清楚了(1)“隐性偏见测量”在概念上几乎没有一致性,(2)其使用和解释背后的关键假设是未经证实的(例如,假设这些任务利用了无意识的心理内容或与联想学习有特殊关系)。GLE还指出,社会认知研究几乎没有开始研究在电脑键盘上输入的反应之外的类别驱动偏见的无意识。我们不清楚如何解释“隐性偏见测量”的结果,这是一个公开的秘密(例如,见Fiedler、Messner和Bluemke,2006)。Project Implicit是一个最大的教育和研究平台,通常被称为研究“隐性偏见”,其管理者在平台网站上有一个诚实的免责声明:任务的设计者、他们的推动者、,以及他们的相关机构“不声称”他们对IAT分数的建议解释的有效性(https://implict.harvard.edu/implict/takatest.html)。如果我们想诚实地说,我们也不知道哪些社会行为以及何时是由社会类别的无意识影响驱动的。如果社会认知研究依赖于脱离“隐性偏见”(GLE对其的定义)的任务和学习环境,那么这就引出了围绕这一概念的教育有多准确和有利可图的问题。作为一个恰当的例子,心理学入门教材通常无法准确描述最突出的“偏见的隐性衡量标准”(Bartels&Schoenrade,2022)。我们怀疑,校外教育并没有好到哪里去。在本评论中,我们推测了我们是如何走到这一步的,我们讨论了当科学家将科学与纯粹的观点混为一谈时,情况会有多糟糕,并提出了前进的道路。我们认为,如果从彻底的术语变化开始,在社会认知研究中进行剧烈的改变,那么对“内隐偏见”的有力研究最终可以看到曙光。
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What Implicit Measures of Bias Can Do 偏见的隐性测量可以做什么
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2106759
David E. Melnikoff, Benedek Kurdi
Gawronski, Ledgerwood, and Eastwick (this issue; GLE) bring much needed attention to the limitations of currently available implicit measures as tools for studying unconscious bias. We agree with the authors of the target article that the current state of the literature offers little reason to believe that commonly used implicit measures, such as sequential priming (Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell, & Kardes, 1986), the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998), and the Affect Misattribution Procedure (Payne, Cheng, Govorun, & Stewart, 2005), capture unconscious influences of social category cues on behavioral responses. If anything, the evidence suggests the opposite: Participants may well be aware of how their responses are influenced by social cues on implicit measures (Hahn, Judd, Hirsh, & Blair, 2014; Hahn & Gawronski, 2019), although to what degree and as a result of what type of process or processes remains to be investigated (Morris & Kurdi, 2022). Nonetheless, even if the extent of awareness differs depending on the specific conditions of the task, the lack of compelling evidence for the ability of currently available implicit measures to index unconscious bias is surprising. As GLE observe, the concepts of unconscious bias and bias on implicit measures have been, and continue to be, conflated, both in the empirical literature and popular discourse. This conundrum will prompt many readers to wonder: If implicit measures of bias are not useful for measuring unconscious bias, are they useful at all? They are. Whether or not they shed light on unconscious bias, implicit measures have been, and we believe will remain, essential to the study of social cognition. We suspect that the lead author of the target article, who has used implicit measures of bias to make numerous contributions to the understanding of social information processing, would agree. But what is it, exactly, that implicit measures of bias are good for, if not probing the human unconscious? This is the question we address in the current commentary. Broadly speaking, implicit measures of bias have been and continue to be critical for addressing two related questions: (i) what is the nature of unintentional bias? and (ii) what is the cognitive architecture of bias? In what follows, we show how implicit measures fuel progress on both fronts while, crucially, also advancing the translational goal of revealing the nature of, and reducing, groupbased inequality. Using Implicit Measures of Bias to Reveal the Nature of Unintentional Bias
Gawronski、Ledgerwood和Eastwick(本期;GLE)引起了人们对当前可用的内隐测量作为研究无意识偏见工具的局限性的迫切关注。我们同意目标文章的作者的观点,即文献的现状几乎没有理由相信常用的内隐测量,如顺序启动(Fazio,Sanbonmatsu,Powell,&Kardes,1986)、内隐联想测试(Greenwald,McGhee,&Schwartz,1998)和情感归因错误程序(Payne,Cheng,Govorun,&Stewart,2005),捕捉社会类别线索对行为反应的无意识影响。如果有什么不同的话,证据表明情况恰恰相反:参与者可能很清楚他们的反应是如何受到社会暗示对隐性测量的影响的(Hahn,Judd,Hirsch,&Blair,2014;Hahn和Gawronski,2019),尽管在多大程度上以及由于何种类型的过程仍有待调查(Morris和Kurdi,2022)。尽管如此,即使意识的程度因任务的具体条件而异,但缺乏令人信服的证据来证明目前可用的隐性指标是否有能力索引无意识偏见,这是令人惊讶的。正如GLE所观察到的,在实证文献和流行话语中,无意识偏见和对内隐测量的偏见的概念一直并将继续被混为一谈。这个难题会让许多读者产生疑问:如果隐性偏见测量对测量无意识偏见没有用处,那么它们有用吗?确实如此。无论它们是否揭示了无意识偏见,内隐测量一直是,我们相信将继续是社会认知研究的关键。我们怀疑,目标文章的主要作者会同意这一观点,他使用了隐含的偏见衡量标准,为理解社会信息处理做出了许多贡献。但是,如果不探究人类的无意识,那么隐性的偏见测量究竟有什么好处呢?这就是我们在当前评注中谈到的问题。从广义上讲,隐性偏见测量一直是并将继续是解决两个相关问题的关键:(i)无意偏见的性质是什么?以及(ii)偏见的认知结构是什么?在接下来的内容中,我们展示了隐性措施如何在两个方面推动进步,同时至关重要的是,还推进了揭示和减少基于群体的不平等的本质的转化目标。利用隐性偏见测量揭示无意偏见的本质
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Commentary on Gawronski, Ledgerwood, and Eastwick, Implicit Bias ≠ Bias on Implicit Measures Gawronski、Ledgerwood和Eastwick的评论,隐性偏见 ≠ 隐性测量的偏差
IF 9.3 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2022.2106761
M. Olson, L. Gill
The authors of the target article offer a definition of implicit bias as “unconscious effects of social category cues” (Gawronski, Ledgerwood, & Eastwick, this issue, p. 140), and, so defined, make a case for examining its causes, effects, and possible amelioration. We support this pursuit and offer some suggestions on how that might be accomplished. For years we have argued that however implicit bias might be defined, to equate it to the output of a measure that one happens to also call “implicit” or is a bad idea (e.g., Fazio & Olson, 2003; Olson & Fazio, 2009; Olson & Gill, 2022; Olson & Zabel, 2016). Indeed, we wrote nearly twenty years ago, “We would encourage researchers not to equate an implicitly measured construct with an unconscious one” (Fazio & Olson, 2003, p. 303). Since then, evidence has accumulated that bias on implicit measures is not implicit in the sense of being inaccessible to consciousness. For example, in 2007 we showed that implicitly measured self-esteem was consciously accessible and hence reportable on explicit measures when respondents were implored to be honest (Olson, Fazio, & Hermann, 2007). Similarly, implicitly-assessed antiBlack bias correlates with explicitly-assessed anti-Black bias under conditions of honesty and anonymity (Phillips & Olson, 2014; see also Hahn, Judd, Hirsh, & Blair, 2014). Nevertheless, we see the need for the authors’ treatise on the problems of conflating implicit bias with bias on an implicit measure, as prominent researchers in these domains persist in equating the two (Greenwald et al., 2022). However, and despite social scientists’ proliferation of near-synonyms, we also want to make a case that a focus on automaticity over implicitness with regard to implicit measures (and, as we will see, implicit bias) has a strong theoretical foundation and empirical support. Before the term “implicit” was popularized and applied to prejudice or attitude measurement, Fazio and colleagues (e.g., Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell, & Kardes, 1986) were investigating the automatic activation of attitudes. The evaluative priming measure they developed is probably the second most-used implicit measure, after the IAT. On a given trial in a priming task, a prime (the attitude object, usually in image form) is presented briefly, followed by a clearly valenced target adjective (e.g., wonderful) participants are tasked with identifying as either good or bad by pressing one of two corresponding keys as quickly as possible. This seminal work found that for particularly strong attitudes, primes facilitate the identification of valence-congruent target adjectives: cake primes facilitated identification of positive targets, and death primes facilitated identification of negative targets (inhibition of valence incongruent prime-target pairs was also observed). This facilitation effect is automatic because the activation of participants’ attitudes occurred despite their goal to identify the valence of the targets, not the p
这种态度一旦被激活,就会引发一连串的过程,最终形成一种自发的态度-行为关系:一个怀有反黑人偏见的人
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