Can Carelessness Be Captured? Assessing Careless Responding in Attitudes Toward Novel Stimuli

Detecting careless responding has the potential to improve the quality of data obtained from research participants. In three samples (ns = 570, 602, 210), we used multiple indices of careless responding to predict the strength of implicit and explicit attitudes formed toward novel social groups as well as error rates on the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998). We tested each measure of careless responding on its...