“…In line with this idea, changes in implicit evaluations have been observed when participants are provided with verbal information about the evaluative properties of a stimulus (Castelli, Zogmaister, Smith & Arcuri, 2004;Cone & Ferguson, 2015;Gawronski, Walther, & Blank, 2005;Gregg, Seibt, & Banaji, 2006). Importantly, these models predict a specific pattern of mediation such that instruction effects on explicit evaluation should mediate effects on implicit evaluation (e.g., Gawronski & Walther, 2008;Peters & Gawronski, 2011a;Whitfield & Jordan, 2009;see Gawronski & Bodenhausen, 2006;Case 4). recently performed two experiments that tested the mediating role of explicit evaluations in the effect of AA instructions on implicit evaluations.…”