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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 05 July 2012 01:44:32PM 1 point [-]

Oddly enough, the IAT itself has major problems with the primacy effect - reversing the mappings causes confusion, producing a bias in the data that needs to be carefully excised. So, using the IAT to test the strength of the primacy effect in regards to something else is going to be extra-tricky.