Psychological dual-process theory has become increasingly popular among sociologists. The dual-process framework accounts for two types of thinking; a fast, associative, automatic or subconscious “System 1 thinking”, and a slow, propositional and reflective “System 2 thinking”. The insight that the former can also be empirically studied by sociologists has the potential to significantly improve sociological research. However, dual-process theory is not undisputed within psychology; some scholars question the associative nature of “fast thinking”. This discussion has implications for how implicit cognition should be studied. In this paper, we introduce this discussion to a sociology audience, exemplifying with the case of implicit bias against Muslims. We evaluate these approaches drawing on a set of experiments conducted at Amazon's Mechanical Turk. We discuss the implications of our results for sociological research.

心理双过程理论在社会学家中越来越流行。双进程框架考虑了两种类型的思维；快速、联想、自动或潜意识的“系统 1 思维”，以及缓慢、命题和反思的“系统 2 思维”。社会学家也可以对前者进行实证研究的见解有可能显着改善社会学研究。然而，双重过程理论在心理学中并非无可争议。一些学者质疑“快速思维”的联想性质。这个讨论对如何研究内隐认知有影响。在本文中，我们将这一讨论介绍给社会学受众，以对穆斯林的隐性偏见为例。我们利用在亚马逊进行的一组实验来评估这些方法 s 机械土耳其人。我们讨论了我们的结果对社会学研究的影响。