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<p>This study aimed to assess the sensitivity of the indirect Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) method for detecting differences in the relatedness of socially sensitive stimulus categories as a means of indexing socially relevant biases. Experiment 1 employed 98 participants and found clear bias in the sample using both self-reports and the FAST method. This effect interacted with the gender identity of participants, with females more likely to demonstrate a pro-female bias than males. FAST scores correlated with scores on a self-report contemporary sexism scale, but not with scores on an old-fashioned sexism scale. Experiment 2 employed 52 participants and the same stimuli as Experiment 1. It found significant anti-Black bias across the entire cohort that did not interact with the ethnicity of the participants, half of whom were white. It is interesting that participants self-reported a pro-Black bias on the Modern Racism Scale. No correlation was found between FAST scores and the self-reported measures. Conclusions regarding the viability of the FAST as a useful behavior-analytic measure within social research are considered.</p>

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Assessing the Viability of the Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) Method as a Social Research Tool for Indexing Socially Sensitive Verbal Relations

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    2025年9月28日

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  • Bryan Roche,
  • Denise Aparecida Passarelli,
  • Matthew Wall

摘要

This study aimed to assess the sensitivity of the indirect Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) method for detecting differences in the relatedness of socially sensitive stimulus categories as a means of indexing socially relevant biases. Experiment 1 employed 98 participants and found clear bias in the sample using both self-reports and the FAST method. This effect interacted with the gender identity of participants, with females more likely to demonstrate a pro-female bias than males. FAST scores correlated with scores on a self-report contemporary sexism scale, but not with scores on an old-fashioned sexism scale. Experiment 2 employed 52 participants and the same stimuli as Experiment 1. It found significant anti-Black bias across the entire cohort that did not interact with the ethnicity of the participants, half of whom were white. It is interesting that participants self-reported a pro-Black bias on the Modern Racism Scale. No correlation was found between FAST scores and the self-reported measures. Conclusions regarding the viability of the FAST as a useful behavior-analytic measure within social research are considered.