Balanced identity theory Review of Evidence for Implicit Consistency in Social Cognition

Running Head: BALANCED IDENTITY Balance Identity Theory: Evidence for Implicit Consistency in Social Cognition

A unified theory of implicit attitudes, stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-concept.

This theoretical integration of social psychology's main cognitive and affective constructs was shaped by 3 influences: (a) recent widespread interest in automatic and implicit cognition, (b) development of the Implicit Association Test (IAT; A. G. Greenwald, D. E. McGhee, & J. L. K. Schwartz. 1998), and (c) social psychology's consistency theories of the 1950s, especially F. Heider's (1958) ba...

Cognitive consistency and math-gender stereotypes in Singaporean children.

In social psychology, cognitive consistency is a powerful principle for organizing psychological concepts. There have been few tests of cognitive consistency in children and no research about cognitive consistency in children from Asian cultures, who pose an interesting developmental case. A sample of 172 Singaporean elementary school children completed implicit and explicit measures of math-ge...

Children and Social Groups: A Developmental Analysis of Implicit Consistency in Hispanic Americans

We investigated the development of three aspects of implicit social cognition (selfesteem, group identity, and group attitude) and their interrelationships in Hispanic American children (ages 5 to 12) and adults. Hispanic children and adults showed positive implicit self-esteem and a preference for and identification with their ingroup when the comparison group was another disadvantaged minorit...

What moderates implicit – explicit consistency?

Implicit and explicit indicators of attitudes or personality traits are positively, and variably, related. This review places the question of implicit – explicit consistency into the tradition of attitude/trait – behaviour consistency (e.g., Wicker, 1969). Drawing on dual-process models, such as the recent distinction between associative and propositional representations (Strack&Deutsch, 2004),...