Indirect measures of social identities: implicit association tests assess self-categorization, match–mismatch paradigms distinguish identification from disidentification
A social identity refers to (1) whether people consider a group to be an ingroup along with (2) the psychological meaning of that ingroup (Tajfel, 1978). Social identification and disidentification are two constructs that describe different natures of the psychological meaning of an ingroup. Besides self-reported measures, the Identity Implicit Association Test (identity IAT), and the Match-Mismatch Paradigm (MMP) are the most frequently used measures to assess social identity. In three studies (N = 87, N = 96, N = 137) we tested whether the MMP and identity IAT distinguish between social identification, non-identification, disidentification, and non-categorization. The findings indicate that the identity IAT mostly assesses self-categorization whereas the MMP is sensitive to the specific psychological meaning of an ingroup.
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Self and IdentityPublisher
Routledge Taylor & Francis GroupOther Funding information
European Social Fund grand number: [01PF 08005 C], the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grand number: [MA 7236 1/1], and by seed funding of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Wuerzburg and the Technical University of Dresden.External identifier
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- Psychology