Solutions Implicit testing

Uncover subconscious associations with your brand and products

Implicit tests are research tools that help you uncover consumers' intuitive associations and perceptions of your brand and products. Developed by Harvard psychologists in 1998, implicit tests are now widely adopted in market research to study consumer attitudes and preferences that consumers may not be aware of or consciously express. Implicit tests are useful for:

  • Identifying consumers' top associations with your brand and products.
  • Assessing the strength of your brand's association with desired values.
  • Comparing reactions to your and competitors' brand and products.
  • Monitoring changes in implicit associations over time.
Solutions Implicit testing

Uncover subconscious associations with your brand and products

Implicit tests are research tools that help you uncover consumers' intuitive associations and perceptions of your brand and products. Developed by Harvard psychologists in 1998, implicit tests are now widely adopted in market research to study consumer attitudes and preferences that consumers may not be aware of or consciously express. Implicit tests are useful for:

  • Identifying consumers' top associations with your brand and products.
  • Assessing the strength of your brand's association with desired values.
  • Comparing reactions to your and competitors' brand and products.
  • Monitoring changes in implicit associations over time.

Core benefits of Implicit Testing

Enhance product and concept testing

Complement other research methods by measuring automatic reactions to new products and concepts.

Optimise brand image and positioning

Uncover the strength of automatic associations with your brand relative to competitors.

Understand non-rational consumer decisions

Identify the emotional and intuitive drivers of consumer decision-making to develop more compelling offerings.

Reduce social desirability bias

Minimise the chances of respondents adjusting their survey answers to appear more socially acceptable.

Assess the strength of automatic associations of your brand

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a multi-stage test that helps you assess the strength of automatic associations between brands and attributes. Respondents are shown images or words and asked to quickly categorise them into two groups, each containing a brand and an attribute. The groupings are then reversed, and the categorisation task is repeated. By analysing reaction times for the categorisation tasks, IAT uncovers the relative strength of associations for tested brands.

IAT is particularly useful when investigating brand positioning in consumers' minds and identifying differences in subconscious associations across consumer segments.

Assess the relative strength of consumers' automatic associations with your brand

Identify top consumer associations toward your brand

The Single Association Test is a flexible technique that reveals the attributes consumers instinctively associate with your brand or product. Respondents are shown images or text related to your brand or product and asked to quickly select the attributes they associate with it. The response speed indicates the strength of the association.

This test is especially useful when launching new products or assessing the impact of marketing campaigns on brand perceptions.

Measure consumer perceptions and associations toward a single brand or product

Compare consumer perceptions across multiple brands or products

The Multiple Association Test allows you to compare the automatic associations consumers make across several brands or products. Respondents are presented with a list of attributes, and then shown a series of brands or products one at a time. For each brand or product, respondents must quickly select the attribute they most closely associate with it.

This test is especially useful when you want to quickly compare the associations of your brand or product against competitors.

Compare the associations toward multiple brands or products

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