Consequential validity of the Implicit Association Test: Comment on Blanton and Jaccard (2006).
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Consequential Validity of the Implicit Association Test
Numeric values of psychological measures often have an arbitrary character before research has grounded their meanings, thereby providing what S. J. Messick (1995) called consequential validity (part of which H. Blanton and J. Jaccard, 2006, this issue, now identify as metric meaningfulness). Some measures are predisposed by their design to acquire meanings easily, an example being the sensitiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Psychologist
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1935-990X,0003-066X
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066x.61.1.56