Priming and timing: a test of two perspectives

✍ Scribed by Willem Koomen; Diederik A. Stapel; Stefanie S. Jansen; Kyran H. R. In' T Veld

• Book ID: 101275892
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0046-2772
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199807/08)28:4<681::aid-ejsp893>3.0.co;2-5

✦ Synopsis

Supporting a stage' perspective of assimilation and contrast eects, and in contrast to an extremity' conceptualization, this study demonstrated that priming moderate person exemplars before the behaviour of an ambiguous target person had been encoded results in assimilation, whereas priming such exemplars after encoding results in a small contrast eect.