Monthly Archives: March 2015

The final paper in this early sampling that directly look at social priming is one on Rape judgment by Wyer, Bodenhausen and Gorman. “Cognitive Mediators of Reactions to Rape” This is another complex design with not many participants. As I … Continue reading →

The Halo attenuation paper is the first paper with reported Standard Deviations! And Eta Squared! Kors I taket (Cross on the ceiling) as we would say in Sweden. The n of each cell is also 40 (although I’m wondering if … Continue reading →

I’m skipping a couple of papers (just for the blog series, I will get back to them) to post about this one. Higgins, Bargh & Lombarid (1984) is definitely one that is extending the priming literature. Three words first: 5 … Continue reading →

Lord, Foti & De Vader’s paper is more… well, inspired, in part, by Srull & Wyer, especially the third experiment. The two first are much more interested in understanding how we think about leadership, and more precisely, leadership categories in … Continue reading →

The first paper looking at non-college students, in fact young children, turns up 1983. Byron Reeves and Gina Garramone tested whether exposure to a TV program could prime traits that are then use to judge another character – very much … Continue reading →

Onward to two more papers in the trail of Srull & Wyer citations. The first one is the easier one.: Carver, Ganellen, Froming and Chamber’s probe into Modeling and Category Accessibility. Modeling here is not related to SEM or Neural … Continue reading →

In our Advanced Social Psychology book, there is a claim that people tend to be very good at recognizing facial identity (that is, people) across very long time-spans. I got to test that this weekend. I returned to my hometown … Continue reading →

Next up in my Srull & Wyer tracing, is Herr, Sherman & Fazios paper, ”on the consequences of priming: Assimilation and contrast effects”, published 1983 in the Journal of experimental social psychology.* The research here is more conceptually related than … Continue reading →

I’m working my way through the papers that have cited Srull & Wyer (1979), which is rather illuminating. Right now I’m going through those papers that can be considered direct extensions of that research (and hence warrants a more careful … Continue reading →