• DOI:10.1086/703209
Corpus ID: 203513334

Implicit Attitudes toward an Authoritarian Regime

@article{Truex2019ImplicitAT,
  title={Implicit Attitudes toward an Authoritarian Regime},
  author={Rory Truex and Daniel L. Tavana},
  journal={The Journal of Politics},
  year={2019},
  volume={81},
  pages={1014 - 1027}
}

Rory Truex, Daniel L. Tavana

Published 2019

Psychology

The Journal of Politics

Existing research on public opinion under authoritarianism focuses on the deliberative half of cognition. Yet in psychology, implicit attitudes and subconscious associations are often viewed as foundational, the basis for explicit attitudes and behavior. This article adapts the well-known Implicit Association Test to study Egyptian citizens’ attitudes toward President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Roughly 58% of respondents hold positive implicit attitudes toward Sisi. The data also allow for an… CONTINUE READING

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