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This study examined associations between some dimensions of religiosity and implicit racial prejudice. Implicit racial prejudice was measured with S. D. Farnham's (1998) Implicit Association Test (IAT), a software program that records reaction time as participants categorize names (of Blacks and Whites) and adjectives (pleasant or unpleasant). Participants also completed self-report measures of religious fundamentalism, Christian orthodoxy, religious orientations (i.e., intrinsic, extrinsic, quest), right-wing authoritarianism, and social desirability. White college students took significantly longer to categorize names and adjectives in one IAT condition (White-unpleasant, Black-pleasant) than in a second IAT condition (White-pleasant, Black-unpleasant), the race-IAT effect. A multiple regression analysis revealed that right-wing authoritarianism was positively associated with the race-IAT effect (β = .31), Christian …