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Faking revisited: Exerting strategic control over performance on the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure
Author(s) -
Hughes Sean,
Hussey Ian,
Corrigan Bethany,
Jolie Katie,
Murphy Carol,
BarnesHolmes Dermot
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2207
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , control (management) , isolation (microbiology) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , management , microbiology and biotechnology , economics , biology
Abstract Across four studies, we demonstrate that effects obtained from the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure, like those obtained from other indirect procedures, are not impervious to strategic manipulation. In experiment 1, we found that merely informing participants to “fake” their performance without providing a concrete strategy to do so did not eliminate, reverse, or in any way alter the obtained outcomes. However, when those same instructions orientated attention toward the core parameters of the task, participants spontaneously derived a strategy that allowed them to eliminate their effects (experiment 2). When the participants were provided with a viable response strategy, they successfully reversed the direction of their overall Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure effect (experiment 3). By refining the nature of those instructions, we managed to target and alter individual trial‐type effects in isolation with some success (experiment 4).