Editing Illusory correlation (section)

===Explicit versus implicit attitudes===
Two studies performed by Ratliff and Nosek examined whether or not explicit and implicit attitudes affected illusory correlations.  In one study, Ratliff and Nosek had two groups: one a majority and the other a minority. They then had three groups of participants, all with readings about the two groups.  One group of participants received overwhelming pro-majority readings, one was given pro-minority readings, and one received neutral readings.  The groups that had pro-majority and pro-minority readings favored their respective pro groups both explicitly and implicitly.  The group that had neutral readings favored the majority explicitly, but not implicitly.  The second study was similar, but instead of readings, pictures of behaviors were shown, and the participants wrote a sentence describing the behavior they saw in the pictures presented.  The findings of both studies supported the authors' argument that the differences found between the explicit and implicit attitudes is a result of the interpretation of the covariation and making judgments based on these interpretations (explicit) instead of just accounting for the covariation (implicit).<ref name="RatliffNosek2010">{{cite journal|last1=Ratliff|first1=Kate A.|last2=Nosek|first2=Brian A.|title=Creating distinct implicit and explicit attitudes with an illusory correlation paradigm|journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology|volume=46|issue=5|year=2010|pages=721–728|doi=10.1016/j.jesp.2010.04.011}}</ref>