Murch, AJ; Choudhury, T; Wilson, M; Collerton, E; Patel, M; Scior, K; (2018) Explicit and implicit attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities: The role of contact and participant demographics. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities , 31 (5) pp. 778-784. 10.1111/jar.12429.

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BACKGROUND: Intellectual disability research has concentrated on self-reported explicit attitudes with little focus on implicit attitudes. Such attitudes are evaluations which occur with or without conscious awareness, respectively. This investigation examined participants' (N = 234) attitudes towards individuals with intellectual disabilities with reference to participants' gender, age, level of education, frequency of contact and closeness. METHOD: UK adults completed explicit (ATTID) and implicit attitude (ST-IAT) measures, and provided demographics via an online survey. RESULTS: Participant demographics predicted explicit attitudes-with differing cognitive, affective and behavioural associations. Contact frequency was most significant. Implicit attitudes were not predicted, evidencing implicit-explicit attitude differences. CONCLUSIONS: The results encourage more implicit-explicit attitude relationship research regarding disability. The associations between demographics, contact and implicit attitudes should be explored further. Research should question whether implicit attitudes reflect participants' true beliefs-denoting less importance to demographics-or whether they reflect wider societal values rather than individuals' attitudes.

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