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Seems like nonsense to me. First the authors state:
"It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology."
Then they proceed to ask you questions through the standard procedure of a questionnaire. Unfortunately, as most social-psychologists have come to realise, when people are asked questions they tend to self-reflect on them and put forward what they would like to think about themselves (what Freud called their "ideal-ego" - which, incidentally, isn't helped by telling the participants in bold print that they're being observed). Thus if most people are asked whether they would have tortured someone under the Nazi regime they self-reflect and say "no". But if they are put under experimental conditions, they tend to do the complete opposite of what they thought they would do.
Funny that the authors recognise that people "don't always 'know their minds'" and then go on to write such an epitemologically dubious test. Have these people never even heard about focus groups (especially those that try to manipulate swing-voters - no need to study psychology, just ask your last Democrat president about that one...), free association or the infamous Milgram experiments?