Assessing Children's Implicit Attitudes Using the Affect Misattribution Procedure

Autor/inn/en	Williams, Amanda; Steele, Jennifer R.; Lipman, Corey
Titel	Assessing Children's Implicit Attitudes Using the Affect Misattribution Procedure
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 17 (2016) 3, S.505-525 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2015.1061527
Schlagwörter	Animals; Gender Differences; Priming; Psychological Patterns; Children; Age Differences; Task Analysis; Foreign Countries; Attitude Measures; Nonverbal Communication; Individual Differences; Affective Behavior; Emotional Response; Empathy; Attribution Theory; Prediction; Statistical Analysis; Canada (Toronto) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Animal; Tier; Tiere; Geschlechterkonflikt; Child; Kind; Kinder; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Aufgabenanalyse; Ausland; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Individueller Unterschied; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Emotionales Verhalten; Empathie; Vorhersage; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	In the current research, we examined whether the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) could be successfully adapted as an implicit measure of children's attitudes. We tested this possibility in 3 studies with 5- to 10-year-old children. In Study 1, we found evidence that children misattribute affect elicited by attitudinally positive (e.g., cute animals) and negative (e.g., aggressive animals) primes to neutral stimuli (inkblots). In Study 2, we found that, as expected, children's responses following flower and insect primes were moderated by gender. Girls (but not boys) were more likely to judge inkblots as pleasant when they followed flower primes. Children in Study 3 showed predicted affect misattribution following happy-face compared with sad-face primes. In addition, children's responses on this child-friendly AMP predicted their self-reported empathy: The greater children's spontaneous misattribution of affect following happy and sad primes, the more children reported feeling the joy and pain of others. These studies provide evidence that the AMP can be adapted as an implicit measure of children's attitudes, and the results of Study 3 offer novel insight into individual differences in children's affective responses to the emotional expressions of others. (As Provided).
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