Recent interest in the implicit self-esteem construct has led to the creation and use of several new assessment toots whose psychometric properties have not been fully explored. In this article, the authors investigated the reliability and validity of seven implicit self-esteem measures. The different implicit measures did not correlate with each other, and they correlated only weakly with measures of explicit self-esteem. Only some of the implicit measures demonstrated good test-retest reliabilities, and overall, the implicit measures were limited in their ability to predict our criterion variables. Finally, there was some evidence that implicit self-esteem measures are sensitive to context. The implications of these findings for the future of implicit self-esteem research are discussed.According to Indian folklore, there were once six blind men who had heard of the animal called the elephant but did not know what one was like. To satisfy their curiosity, they decided one day to use their sense of touch to determine the creature's appearance. Matters became confusing, however, when each man touched a different part of the elephant and became convinced that he alone understood its true nature. "The elephant is very like a snake!" proclaimed the man who had touched its trunk. The fellow who had touched its side, however, declared the elephant to be **nothing but a wall," whereas the man who touched the creature's tusk claimed that the elephant was "like a spear," and so on. It is no wonder, then, that the six men could not agree on the true appearance of the elephant (Saxe, 1936).We see two compelling parallels between the tale of The Blind Men and the Elephant and the current state of implicit self-esteem research. First, implicit self-esteem researchers, like the six blind men, are involved in a process of giving shape to something that cannot be seen, something whose characteristics must be inferred. Second, like the blind men, researchers tend to use their own idiosyncratic strategies for measuring implicit self-esteem, yielding many different (and perhaps nonoverlapping) pictures of the underlying construct.1 In this article, we attempt to uncover the "elephant" by examining the different strategies that researchers have devised in their explorations of implicit self-esteem. To this end, we assess the psychometric properties of several different measures of implicit self-esteem, and we ask whether they tap into