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ev eAbstract We examined the inXuence of extrapersonal associations (Olson & Fazio, 2004)—associations that neither form the basis of the attitude nor become activated automatically in response to the object—on the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998) by experimentally creating both attitudes and extrapersonal associations. The results revealed that participants who were given extrapersonal information that was inconsistent with their own attitudes were aVected by this information when they later performed an IAT. They exhibited signiWcantly reduced IAT scores compared to participants who were provided attitude–consistent extrapersonal information. This attenuation of the IAT eVect occurred despite the fact that participants rated the source of the atti-tude–inconsistent extrapersonal information as irrational and foolish. On the other hand, the extrapersonal associations did not inXuence a subliminal priming measure in Experiment 1, nor a personalized version of the IAT (Olson & Fazio, 2004) in Experiment 2. These measures proved sensitive to the attitude, regardless of the congruency of the extrapersonal information