Assessing the Evidence for the Effect of “Hostile Priming” on Impression Formation Tasks
Priming participants with hostility is believed to affect their subsequentjudgments that others are hostile: A so-called hostile priming effect(e.g., Srull & Wyer, 1979). Although hostile priming effects have beenresearched for decades by several different individuals, to-date, noresearch has quantitatively assessed the published evidence for hostilepriming effects. This lack of assessment seems especially critical giventhat several publications have recently been retracted from the literature(i.e., Otten & Stapel, 2007; Stapel & Koomen, 1997; Stapel, Koomen, & vander Pligt, 1997). The current study used *p*-curve analyses to assess theevidentiary value in publications studying hostile priming effects. Theevidentiary value for hostile priming effects was found across differentmethodological choices and was found to not be dependent on a fewindividual studies. From these analyses I conclude that the evidence forhostile priming effects on subsequent impressions of hostility is robust.