How the Self Controls Its “Automatic Pilot” when Processing Subliminal Information

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 911-920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Jaśkowski ◽  
Blandyna Skalska ◽  
Rolf Verleger
Keyword(s):  
Visual Discrimination ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Subliminal Priming ◽  
Strategic Control ◽  
Brain Potentials ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Motor Activation ◽  
Error Frequency ◽  
Automatic Pilot

Human performance may be primed by information not consciously available. Can such priming become so overwhelming that observers cannot help but act accordingly? In the present study, well-visible stimuli were preceded by whole series of unidentifiable stimuli. These series had strong, additive priming effects on behavior. However, their effect depended on the frequency with which they provided information conflicting to the visible main stimuli. Thus, effects of subliminal priming are under observers' strategic control, with the criterion presumably set as a function of the openly observable error frequency. Electrical brain potentials show that this criterion acts simultaneously at the level of visual discrimination of the primes and at motor activation evoked by the primes, thereby shielding observers from unwanted information.

scholarly journals Perceptual learning can reverse subliminal priming effects

2007 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 558-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Przekoracka-Krawczyk ◽  
Piotr Jaśkowski
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Subliminal Priming ◽  
Priming Effects

scholarly journals Avatar-User Bond as Meta-Cognitive Experience: Explicating Identification and Embodiment as Cognitive Fluency

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young June Sah ◽  
Minjin Rheu ◽  
Rabindra Ratan
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
The Self ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Cognitive Fluency ◽  
Social Traits ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cognitive Experience ◽  
Psychological Mechanism

Scholars have not reached an agreement on a theoretical foundation that underlies the psychological effects of avatar use on users. One group of scholars focuses on the perceptual nature of avatar use, proposing that perceiving the self-being represented by a virtual representation leads to the effects (i.e., Proteus effect). Another group suggests that social traits in avatars prime users causing them to behave in accordance with the social traits (i.e., priming effects). We combine these two theoretical explanations and present an alternative approach, hinging on a concept of meta-cognitive experience. The psychological mechanism of the avatar-user bond is explicated in terms of cognitive fluency, a type of meta-cognitive experience reflecting an awareness of how readily or easily information is processed. Under this explication, two concepts related to avatar-user bond, identification and embodiment, are understood as the meta-cognitive experience of cognitive fluency at the level of one’s identity and physical body, respectively. Existing empirical evidence on avatar effects is revisited to explore how this new theoretical framework can be applied.

scholarly journals Exposure to the thin beauty ideal: Are there subliminal priming effects?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Leins ◽  
Manuel Waldorf ◽  
Boris Suchan ◽  
Martin Diers ◽  
Stephan Herpertz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subliminal Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Beauty Ideal

Mechanisms of Priming by Masked Stimuli: Inferences From Event-Related Brain Potentials

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Leuthold ◽  
Bruno Kopp
Keyword(s):  
Priming Effect ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Brain Potentials ◽  
Sensorimotor Processing ◽  
Response Mapping ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Motor Activation ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Target Locations

A metacontrast procedure was combined with the recording of event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the mechanisms underlying the priming effect exerted by masked visual stimuli (primes) on target processing. Participants performed spatially arranged choice responses to stimulus locations. The relationship between prime and target locations (congruity) and the mapping between target and response locations (compatibility) were factorially manipulated. Although participants were unaware of prime locations, choice responses were faster for congruent than incongruent conditions irrespective of the mapping. Visual ERP components and the onset of the lateralized readiness potential (LRP), an index of specific motor activation, revealed that neither perceptual nor preselection processes contributed to the congruity effect. However, the LRP waveform indicated that primes activated responses that fit the stimulus-response mapping. These results support the view that sensorimotor processing of masked stimuli is functionally distinct from their conscious perception.

scholarly journals Romantic Priming Effects on the Social Desirability and Hireability of Self-Promoting Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Samantha B. Douglas ◽  
Juanita Cole
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
The Self ◽  
Career Aspiration ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Participant Gender ◽  
First Choice ◽  
The Social

<p>The present study examined the effects of romantic and intelligence priming on the social-desirability and hireability of self-promoting and communal female job applicants. Participants were first primed with either romantic or intelligence related images and then asked to evaluate the social-desirability and hireability of three female job applicants. These job applicants were self-promoting and competent, communal and competent, or communal and not competent. After rating the job applicants, participants were reprimed and asked to complete a scale measuring career aspiration. Results revealed that participants rated the self-promoting applicant as more hirable than the communal applicants. In contrast, the communal and competent applicant was rated more socially desirable than the self-promoting applicant. No effect of priming on participants’ career aspiration or applicants’ social-desirability or hireability was found. However, there was a marginally significant relationship between participant gender and first choice to hire.</p>

scholarly journals Can Achievement Goals be Primed in Competitive Tasks?

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
Iain Greenlees ◽  
Sean Figgins ◽  
Philip Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Subliminal Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Goal Priming

Abstract This study examined whether achievement goal priming effects would be observed within an overtly competitive setting. Male soccer players (N = 66) volunteered to participate in a soccer penalty-kick taking competition during which they took 20 penalty-kicks on 2 occasions. Following a pretest, participants were allocated to 1 of 5 priming conditions. Immediately prior to the posttest, participants in the priming conditions were asked to complete what was presented as an ostensibly unrelated task that took the form of either a computer task (subliminal priming) or wordsearch task (supraliminal priming). Results revealed that priming had no significant influence on performance.

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