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  • Essay / Stereotyping in Project Implicit - 560

    I have chosen to take two IAT tests on the Project Implicit website. The website states that Project Implicit was started by Tony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji with the aim of performing scientific testing virtually. Project Implicit is a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring unconscious bias. The tests I ran on the site focused on the automatic preference of older or younger people and gay or straight people. Each test required me to sort pictures and sentences using the “E” and “I” keys. The first groupings were between the two groups of people, followed by two sets of words labeled “good” and “bad”. After completing these two sets, the groups were combined and reversed. For example, the first group consisted of old people and good words. The second round brought together the elderly and the swear words. In the end, the results determined which group I was most inclined toward. The IAT test follows Chapter 13 in the areas of stereotypes, self-fulfilling prophecies, and dispositional attributions. Each assessment required me to categorize words and symbols, following the definition of stereotypes (categorizing people). Along the...