Yoav Bar-Anan

Who they are

Bar-Anan appears in this publication as first author, with Brian Nosek, of a methods paper on indirect measures of attitudes. The vault holds no verified biography, institutional affiliation or career history for him, so this page describes the work and does not go beyond it.

Key papers

Bar-Anan and Nosek (2014), A comparative investigation of seven indirect attitude measures, Behavior Research Methods, volume 46, issue 3, 668-688. The paper compared the implicit association test, its brief version and five other indirect measures on 23,413 people, across attitudes towards politics, race and self-esteem. It assessed internal consistency, test-retest reliability, sensitivity to known differences and relations with other indirect and direct measures.

Key ideas

The paper proposed judging indirect measures against one another on a common set of criteria, rather than one at a time. In its reported averages the implicit association test had the highest internal consistency of the seven (.88) and a test-retest correlation of .45, with its brief version highest on test-retest (.63). The authors state that their results bear on the validity of the measures as attitude measures and do not decide whether the attitudes measured are implicit. The paper is used in Does the implicit association test work? for its reliability figures and for the topic-by-topic correlations between the test and self-report.

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