Unaware Attitude Formation in the Surveillance Task? Revisiting the Findings of Moran et al. (2021)

Moran et al. (2021) report a multi-lab registered replication of Olson and Fazio’s (2001) surveillance task. The task is an incidental learning procedure over the course which participants observe pairings conditioned stimuli (CSs) unconditioned (USs) while engaging in distracting secondary Unaware evaluative conditioning (EC) effects are inferred if who fail to CS–US contingencies on post-hoc measure show preference for CSpos CSneg. claimed establish such relying criteria used by Fazio exclude contingency aware from analyses. Here we reexamine al.’s data using more fine-grained analytic strategies. We that awareness measures and, extension, lack adequate reliability validity. Moreover, even assuming valid measures, Bayesian analyses did not provide unambiguous evidence unaware EC under any exclusion criterion provided decisive against most models. Finally, separate analysis distinguished between fully aware, partially shows due inclusion purportedly subsample. These reanalyses suggest as indexed has yet be convincingly demonstrated. discuss conceptual, theoretical, applied implications these findings with regard potential attitude formation.