Actitudes Implícitas y Explícitas de Defensores de Familia en la Toma de Decisiones Administrativas

Abstract

Attitudes are seen as relatively durable evaluations that people make about the positive or negative that you find objects, events or situations in its environment, resulting from beliefs, emotions and past experiences with those, which have a direct influence on the decision-making and behavior of people. This research evaluated the implicit and explicit attitudes of a sample of family defenders assigned to the Zonal Center ICBF-Huila, from related dimensions of vulnerability or generativity and concepts related to socio-demographic factors of caregivers attributes, through a questionnaire explicit attitudes and five Implicit Association Test (trades, gender, socio-economic status, sexual orientation and age). The results show implicit and explicit biases with moderate to associate attributes generativity and vulnerability factors related trades, socioeconomic status and sexual orientation effects, showing preferences for trades of professional type, heterosexual sexual orientation and high socio-economic status. These findings are discussed about the effects of implicit cognition about taking judicial and administrative decisions and the need for training in legal operators about these effects.