dream_labyrinth | Mad scientists

...asking lots of questions:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/

Here you will have the opportunity to assess your conscious and unconscious preferences for over 90 different topics ranging from pets to political issues, ethnic groups to sports teams, and entertainers to styles of music. At the same time, you will be assisting psychological research on thoughts and feelings.

Sessions require 10-15 minutes to complete. Each time you begin a session you will be randomly assigned to a topic. Try one or do them all! At the end of the session, you will get some information about the study and a summary of your results. We hope that you will find the experience interesting and informative.

I did several of their topics. The results weren't particularly surprising, but interesting nonetheless:

Your data suggest a slight automatic association between System and Justified.

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Equal compared to Unequal. (This was a difficult one for me. I associate the word "equal" with "before the law", but I'm not sure this is their interpretation)

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Markets compared to Regulation.

Your data suggest a slight automatic association between Self and Religious.

Your data suggest a strong automatic association for 2050 with Safety and 1950 with Danger compared to 1950 with Safety and 2050 with Danger. (They have pictures of 1950s cars, for heaven's sake. How can that be safe??)

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Change compared to Preserve.

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Mother compared to Father. (It was somewhat uncomfortable to find how easy it was to align negative words with "father".)

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Possible compared to Certain.

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Novel compared to Familiar.

Your data suggest a moderate automatic association between Self and Liberal.

Your data suggest a strong automatic association of Bill Clinton with Honest and George Bush with Corrupt compared to George Bush with Honest and Bill Clinton with Corrupt. (strong automatic response? I don't think Clinton was the epitome of honesty, but I had a lot of trouble putting Bush and Honest in the same category.)

Your data suggest a moderate automatic positive association with System.

Your data suggest a slight automatic positive association with Social Order.

Your data suggest a moderate automatic association of Creationism with False and Evolution with True.

Your data suggest a moderate automatic association of Government with Good. (Beginning to see a pattern here? I believe in the system, don't I)

Your data suggest a slight automatic positive self esteem. (Slight being the operative word here; I'm usually accused of having a far too high self esteem.)

Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Individual compared to Group.

Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for 2050 compared to 1950.