Are Relational Implicit Measures Sensitive to Relational Information?

Evidence increasingly suggests that information about the relation between stimuli can impact responses on implicit measures, but those measures were not designed to capture this in a controlled manner. Relational have therefore been developed assess such relational more specific Such used beliefs variety of contexts. However, despite numerous theoretical inferences having made under premise these validly measure content, assumption has directly tested. Across four preregistered experiments (N = 747) participants learned different relations two fictitious social groups and traits (e.g., Niffites are kind, Luupites should be kind). We then tested whether (the RRT, aIAT, PEP) reflected information. Overall, only mousetracking variant PEP effectively produced expected effects for both are- should-based Our results suggest many (as currently used) sensitive ways previously assumed, although use alternative scoring methods incorporate accuracy may represent step towards improving sensitivity.