ABSTRACT

Published studies point to heterogeneity in the relations between context diversity and implicit associations. To rule out methodological variations as an explanation, the relations between three dimensions of context diversity and four implicit associations were examined across 747 counties and 341 metropolitan areas, keeping constant as many factors as possible. Black people were evaluated more positively and were less associated with weapons in contexts with higher variety or higher integration combined with lower minority representation. Asian and Native Americans were more strongly associated with the American identity in contexts with higher minority representation and higher variety. These effects were largely consistent across context type, were seldom moderated by participant ethnicity, and held when controlling context-level education, median income, economic inequalities, proportion of U.S. citizens, and population density. The specificity of context diversity to implicit association relations is not attributable to methodological variations. Possible mechanisms underlying these effects are discussed.

摘要

已发表的研究指出了上下文多样性和内隐关联之间关系的异质性。为了排除方法上的差异作为解释，我们在 747 个县和 341 个大都市区检查了上下文多样性的三个维度和四个隐含关联之间的关系，并尽可能保持恒定的因素。在多样性更高或融合度更高且少数民族代表性较低的情况下，黑人得到了更积极的评价，并且与武器的关联性较低。亚裔和美洲原住民在少数族裔代表性更高和多样性更高的背景下与美国身份的关联性更强。这些影响在不同背景类型中基本一致，很少受参与者种族的调节，并且在控制背景水平教育时保持不变，收入中位数、经济不平等、美国公民比例和人口密度。上下文多样性对隐式关联关系的特殊性不能归因于方法的变化。讨论了这些影响的可能机制。