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Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships

... activating the properties of schemas (this process is called priming). For example, John Bargh and his colleagues (1996) primed students ... / more

Justice seems not to be for all: Exploring the scope of justice

... immigrants. We used the same justice-perception setting, priming participants with the thought that “the world is just” in order to ... / more

General action and inaction goals: Definitions & effects

... goals can be triggered and studied within the lab through priming. Priming involves using pictures, words, or behaviors to ‘activate’ certain ... / more

On the dark and bright sides to vengeance: Cognitive, behavioral and affective consequences of aggression

... activation: A systematic approach to distinguishing goal priming from priming of non-goal constructs . Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, ... / more

Successful Dieting in Tempting Environments: Mission Impossible?

... have a strong influence on people’s behavior and that  priming  desirable goal states triggers motivated behavior to reach that goal ... of Fedoroff and colleagues (1997), who demonstrated that priming participants with the smell of pizza increased pizza consumption for ... / more

Culture and Health Psychology: Insights from a Socio-Cultural Perspective

... Does culture influence what and how we think? Effects of priming individualism and collectivism . Psychological Bulletin, 134, ... / more

Are Blonds Really Dumb?

... semantic content. Such a procedure is called subliminal priming. For half the participants, these priming words referred mostly to the stereotype of Black Americans (e.g., ... / more

Sense-making through science

... friendly behavior. More specifically, they found that priming disorder led to an increased intention to engage in environmentally ... / more

Political convictions emerge from the gut

... our feelings about particular candidates, subliminal priming of words with a negative valence may also affect how we perceive ... favorably. If they agreed with the argument prior to the priming, they agreed even more after the priming. When people were primed ... / more

Being rational and emotional are not (necessarily) contradictions

... the relevance of a particular goal, then these emotion-priming studies may be seen as examples of how changing goals can influence ... J., Meredith, M., & Wheeler, S. C. (2008). Contextual priming: Where people vote affects how they vote.  Proceedings of the ... / more