Examining the Predictive Utility of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure in Exploring the Relationship Between Gender-Related Implicit Relational Responding and Cooperation in an Analog Work Task
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Authors
West, Donna
Issue Date
2025
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
Keywords
Brief Immediate Relational Responding , Cooperation , Extended and Elaborated Relational Responses , Gender , High Reliability Organizations , Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure
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Abstract
Gender inequity is ubiquitous in our society. As a function of our unique history, shaping the way we think, talk, and behave, one vantage point towards gender inequity may be “implicit” or brief, immediate, relational responses (BIRRs). Research has demonstrated the ability of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) to measure BIRRs and predict Extended and Elaborated Relational Responses (EERRs) towards particular stimuli, such as those related to gender. Recent literature has captured BIRR-EERR relationships as they pertain to cooperation in medical data entry work analog tasks providing insights crucial to high-reliability organizations where the relationship between BIRRs and cooperation are critical. The present study extended these findings by exploring the relationship between gender-related BIRRs and participants’ cooperation with pseudo-partners of different genders in a medical data entry work analog task. In order to enhance the relevancy of the BIRRs being assessed by the IRAP, an IRAP stimulus-selection survey was conducted with a representative sample. The primary study assessed the predictiveness of the IRAPs including gender-related stimulus sets. Visual analyses and group statistical analyses were used to explore the predictive utility of the two IRAPs on differential choices to pick a woman or man for a partner in the work task. Overall results suggest the Gender-Cooperation IRAP predicted some participants’ BIRRs in the work task as measured by the first three partner choices and the change in choice proportions immediately following a partner error. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research will be discussed.