TY - JOUR
T1 - Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task
T2 - A Preregistered Replication of the Olson and Fazio (2001) Study
AU - Moran, Tal
AU - Hughes, Sean
AU - Hussey, Ian
AU - Vadillo, Miguel A.
AU - Olson, Michael A.
AU - Aust, Frederik
AU - Bading, Karoline
AU - Balas, Robert
AU - Benedict, Taylor
AU - Corneille, Olivier
AU - Douglas, Samantha B.
AU - Ferguson, Melissa J.
AU - Fritzlen, Katherine A.
AU - Gast, Anne
AU - Gawronski, Bertram
AU - Giménez-Fernández, Tamara
AU - Hanusz, Krzysztof
AU - Heycke, Tobias
AU - Högden, Fabia
AU - Hütter, Mandy
AU - Kurdi, Benedek
AU - Mierop, Adrien
AU - Richter, Jasmin
AU - Sarzyńska-Wawer, Justyna
AU - Smith, Colin Tucker
AU - Stahl, Christoph
AU - Thomasius, Philine
AU - Unkelbach, Christian
AU - De Houwer, Jan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Evaluative conditioning is one of the most widely studied procedures for establishing and changing attitudes. The surveillance task is a highly cited evaluative-conditioning paradigm and one that is claimed to generate attitudes without awareness. The potential for evaluative-conditioning effects to occur without awareness continues to fuel conceptual, theoretical, and applied developments. Yet few published studies have used this task, and most are characterized by small samples and small effect sizes. We conducted a high-powered (N = 1,478 adult participants), preregistered close replication of the original surveillance-task study (Olson & Fazio, 2001). We obtained evidence for a small evaluative-conditioning effect when “aware” participants were excluded using the original criterion—therefore replicating the original effect. However, no such effect emerged when three other awareness criteria were used. We suggest that there is a need for caution when using evidence from the surveillance-task effect to make theoretical and practical claims about “unaware” evaluative-conditioning effects.
AB - Evaluative conditioning is one of the most widely studied procedures for establishing and changing attitudes. The surveillance task is a highly cited evaluative-conditioning paradigm and one that is claimed to generate attitudes without awareness. The potential for evaluative-conditioning effects to occur without awareness continues to fuel conceptual, theoretical, and applied developments. Yet few published studies have used this task, and most are characterized by small samples and small effect sizes. We conducted a high-powered (N = 1,478 adult participants), preregistered close replication of the original surveillance-task study (Olson & Fazio, 2001). We obtained evidence for a small evaluative-conditioning effect when “aware” participants were excluded using the original criterion—therefore replicating the original effect. However, no such effect emerged when three other awareness criteria were used. We suggest that there is a need for caution when using evidence from the surveillance-task effect to make theoretical and practical claims about “unaware” evaluative-conditioning effects.
KW - attitude formation
KW - contingency awareness
KW - evaluative conditioning
KW - open data
KW - open materials
KW - preregistered
KW - preregistered replication
KW - recollective memory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097558993&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0956797620968526
DO - 10.1177/0956797620968526
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C2 - 33301363
AN - SCOPUS:85097558993
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 32
SP - 120
EP - 131
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 1
ER -