{"id":824,"date":"2011-09-20T14:17:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T18:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/?page_id=824"},"modified":"2023-10-31T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:57:33","slug":"february-16th-2012-at-8pm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/?page_id=824","title":{"rendered":"February 16th, 2012 at 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/individual.utoronto.ca\/jefferyyen\/Jeffery_Yens_Site\/Home.html\">Jeffrey Yen<\/a>, University of Toronto<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two-faced psychology of prejudice: Public encounters with the Implicit Association Test<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In describing the contradictory nature of the discipline of psychology, the late Steinar Kvale characterized it as a Janus head. One face speaks the subjective, interiorized language of personal transformation and development, evoking the therapeutic domain and authorizing a psychology of \u201chuman concerns\u201d, while the other face speaks through the distanced and objective idiom of statistics and experimental rigor, legitimizing a \u201cpsychology as natural science\u201d. The two faces, though contradictory, are also mutually dependent, bolstering psychology\u2019s claims to scientific truth, while sustaining the public relevance and personal allure of the discipline.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I will consider the play of these two identities of psychology\u2014and of the social psychology of prejudice in particular\u2014by presenting some aspects of my dissertation research on public encounters with the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Specifically, I discuss how the IAT\u2014in its computerized claims to tap into our unconscious prejudices\u2014represents a negotiation of this contradictory identity, and in so doing also consider the ways in which social psychology\u2019s public are reflexively positioned in relation to it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Jeffrey Yen, University of Toronto Title The two-faced psychology of prejudice: Public encounters with the Implicit Association Test Abstract In describing the contradictory nature of the discipline of psychology, the late Steinar Kvale characterized it as a Janus head. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":0,"parent":796,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824\/revisions\/1872"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/httalks.info.yorku.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}