Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure

{{Short description|Computer-based psychological measure}}

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The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) is a computer-based psychological measure. It was heavily influenced by the implicit-association test,{{Cite journal |last1=Barnes-Holmes |first1=Dermot |last2=Barnes-Holmes |first2=Yvonne |last3=Stewart |first3=Ian |last4=Boles |first4=Shawn |date=2010 |title=A sketch of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and the Relational Elaboration and Coherence (REC) model |url=http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/4952/1/YBH_sketch.pdf |journal=The Psychological Record |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=527–542 |doi=10.1007/BF03395726|s2cid=55621415 }} and is one of several tasks referred to as indirect measures of implicit attitudes.{{Cite journal |last1=Nosek |first1=Brian A. |last2=Hawkins |first2=Carlee Beth |last3=Frazier |first3=Rebecca S. |year=2011 |title=Implicit social cognition: from measures to mechanisms |journal=Trends in Cognitive Sciences |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=152–159 |doi=10.1016/j.tics.2011.01.005 |pmc=3073696 |pmid=21376657}}{{Cite book |last1=De Houwer |first1=Jan |title=Handbook of implicit social cognition: measurement, theory, and applications |last2=Moors |first2=Agnes |date=2010 |publisher=Guilford Press |isbn=9781606236734 |editor-last=Gawronski |editor-first=Bertram |editor-link=Bertram Gawronski |location=New York |pages=176–195 |chapter=Implicit measures: similarities and differences |oclc=457010488 |editor-last2=Payne |editor-first2=B. Keith}} The IRAP is one of relatively few indirect measures that can includes relational or propositional rather than associative information.{{Cite book |last1=De Houwer |first1=Jan |title=Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology |last2=Gawronski |first2=Bertram |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107011779 |editor-last=Reis |editor-first=Harry T. |edition=2nd |location=Cambridge, UK; New York |pages=283–310 |chapter=Implicit measures in social and personality psychology |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511996481.016 |oclc=851347261 |editor-last2=Judd |editor-first2=Charles M. |authorlink2=Bertram Gawronski}} The IRAP was conceptualised by Dermot Barnes-Holmes, and originally published in 2006.{{Cite journal |last1=Barnes-Holmes |first1=Dermot |last2=Barnes-Holmes |first2=Yvonne |last3=Power |first3=Patricia |last4=Hayden |first4=Eilish |last5=Milne |first5=Rebecca |last6=Stewart |first6=Ian |date=2006 |title=Do you really know what you believe? Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a direct measure of implicit beliefs |url=https://contextualscience.org/node/3140 |journal=The Irish Psychologist |volume=32 |issue=7 |pages=169–177 |access-date=2016-10-10}} A meta analysis of clinically-relevant criterion effects suggest that the IRAP has good validity.{{Cite journal |last1=Vahey |first1=Nigel A. |last2=Nicholson |first2=Emma |last3=Barnes-Holmes |first3=Dermot |date=2015-09-01 |title=A meta-analysis of criterion effects for the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) in the clinical domain |journal=Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry |volume=48 |pages=59–65 |doi=10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.01.004 |issn=1873-7943 |pmid=25727521}} However, a second meta analysis suggests that it has poor reliability, like many reaction time based measures.{{Cite journal |last1=Golijani-Moghaddam |first1=Nima |last2=Hart |first2=Aidan |last3=Dawson |first3=David L. |date=2013-10-15 |title=The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: Emerging reliability and validity data |url=http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/9713/1/Accepted%20manuscript.pdf |journal=Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science |volume=2 |issue=3–4 |pages=105–119 |doi=10.1016/j.jcbs.2013.05.002}} Research using the IRAP is often linked to relational frame theory,{{Cite journal |last1=Hussey |first1=Ian |last2=Barnes-Holmes |first2=Dermot |last3=Barnes-Holmes |first3=Yvonne |date=2015-04-01 |title=From Relational Frame Theory to implicit attitudes and back again: clarifying the link between RFT and IRAP research |url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8547127 |journal=Current Opinion in Psychology |series=Third wave behavioral therapies |volume=2 |pages=11–15 |doi=10.1016/j.copsyc.2014.12.009|hdl=1854/LU-8547127 |hdl-access=free }} a functional-analytic theory of language.