Jeremy Goldring

Room 206, Hughes Building Phone +61 (08) 8303 3401 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 jeremy.goldring@adelaide.edu.au

Area of Research

Forgiveness
Implicit Association Test (IAT)

Memberships

Society of Australasian Social Psychologists

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Awards

Australian Postdoctoral Award 2007-2010

Psychology Research Interests

My research focuses on developing an Implicit Association Test (IAT) suitable for the measurement of forgiveness, while exploring and assessing its reliability, validity, utility and limitations. The IAT is a computer-based reaction-timed word sorting task which attempts to measure people’s ‘implicit’ (unconscious) attitudes and beliefs, while at the same time circumventing some of the common problems with ‘explicit’ self-report measures (namely, you can’t lie to an IAT). Some key areas that I have been investigating include the relationship between IAT and self-report forgiveness measures, possible/relevant “opposites” of forgiveness (revenge, grudge, punitive justice, etc), the IAT’s assumed resistance to socially desirable responding, the impact of words used to represent forgiveness on IAT effects, the advantages/disadvantages of employing a self-concept (rather than an attitudinal) IAT, as well as generally refining our understanding of what an IAT really measures.