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Imbir K, Pastwa M, Walkowiak M. The Role of the Valence, Arousing Properties and Subjective Significance of Subliminally Presented Words in Affective Priming. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH 2023; 52:33-56. [PMID: 34628565 PMCID: PMC10030452 DOI: 10.1007/s10936-021-09815-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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In the verbal affective priming paradigm, the properties of a subliminally presented stimulus alter the interpretation of neutral target stimulus. In the experiment reported here, we tested the role of four factors (valence, origin, arousing properties and subjective significance) that determine the emotional reactions to words in affective priming. Subliminal masked presentation of words preceded the explicit task, which was assessment of neutral Quick Response code (QR code) stimuli. The QRs were codes for words representing personality traits. The results showed the effect of assimilation (negative words caused a negative interpretation, positive caused a positive interpretation) for words' emotional valence and no effects for origin. Concerning arousal, we found a weak negative trend. In the case of subjective significance, a moderate positive trend was found. These results suggest that affective priming effects are susceptible not only to the valence of priming stimuli but also to activation factors.
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- Kamil Imbir
- Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 5/7 Stawki St., 00-183, Warsaw, Poland.
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- Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 5/7 Stawki St., 00-183, Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 5/7 Stawki St., 00-183, Warsaw, Poland
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Albarracin D, Dai W. Priming Effects on Behavior and Priming Behavioral Concepts: A Commentary on Sherman and Rivers (2020). PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/1047840x.2021.1889319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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Formanowicz M, Pietraszkiewicz A, Roessel J, Suitner C, Witkowska M, Maass A. “Make it Happen!”. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Abstract. Verbs may be attributed to higher agency than other grammatical categories. In Study 1, we confirmed this hypothesis with archival datasets comprising verbs ( N = 950) and adjectives ( N = 2115). We then investigated whether verbs (vs. adjectives) increase message effectiveness. In three experiments presenting potential NGOs (Studies 2 and 3) or corporate campaigns (Study 4) in verb or adjective form, we demonstrate the hypothesized relationship. Across studies, (overall N = 721) grammatical agency consistently increased message effectiveness. Semantic agency varied across contexts by either increasing (Study 2), not affecting (Study 3), or decreasing (Study 4) the effectiveness of the message. Overall, experiments provide insights in to the meta-semantic effects of verbs – demonstrating how grammar may influence communication outcomes.
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- Magdalena Formanowicz
- Center for Research on Social Relations, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
- School of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
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- Department of Social Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova, Italy
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- Center for Research on Social Relations, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
- School of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
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- Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova, Italy
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Albarracin D, Jung H. A research agenda for the post-COVID-19 world: Theory and research in social psychology. ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2021; 24:10-17. [PMID: 33821136 PMCID: PMC8014688 DOI: 10.1111/ajsp.12469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Dolores Albarracin
- Department of Psychology and Gies College of BusinessUniversity of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignChampaignIllinoisUSA
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- Department of Psychology and Gies College of BusinessUniversity of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignChampaignIllinoisUSA
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Ebersole CR, Mathur MB, Baranski E, Bart-Plange DJ, Buttrick NR, Chartier CR, Corker KS, Corley M, Hartshorne JK, IJzerman H, Lazarević LB, Rabagliati H, Ropovik I, Aczel B, Aeschbach LF, Andrighetto L, Arnal JD, Arrow H, Babincak P, Bakos BE, Baník G, Baskin E, Belopavlović R, Bernstein MH, Białek M, Bloxsom NG, Bodroža B, Bonfiglio DBV, Boucher L, Brühlmann F, Brumbaugh CC, Casini E, Chen Y, Chiorri C, Chopik WJ, Christ O, Ciunci AM, Claypool HM, Coary S, Čolić MV, Collins WM, Curran PG, Day CR, Dering B, Dreber A, Edlund JE, Falcão F, Fedor A, Feinberg L, Ferguson IR, Ford M, Frank MC, Fryberger E, Garinther A, Gawryluk K, Ashbaugh K, Giacomantonio M, Giessner SR, Grahe JE, Guadagno RE, Hałasa E, Hancock PJB, Hilliard RA, Hüffmeier J, Hughes S, Idzikowska K, Inzlicht M, Jern A, Jiménez-Leal W, Johannesson M, Joy-Gaba JA, Kauff M, Kellier DJ, Kessinger G, Kidwell MC, Kimbrough AM, King JPJ, Kolb VS, Kołodziej S, Kovacs M, Krasuska K, Kraus S, Krueger LE, Kuchno K, Lage CA, Langford EV, Levitan CA, de Lima TJS, Lin H, Lins S, Loy JE, Manfredi D, Markiewicz Ł, Menon M, Mercier B, Metzger M, Meyet V, Millen AE, Miller JK, Montealegre A, Moore DA, Muda R, Nave G, Nichols AL, Novak SA, Nunnally C, Orlić A, Palinkas A, Panno A, Parks KP, Pedović I, Pękala E, Penner MR, Pessers S, Petrović B, Pfeiffer T, Pieńkosz D, Preti E, Purić D, Ramos T, Ravid J, Razza TS, Rentzsch K, Richetin J, Rife SC, Rosa AD, Rudy KH, Salamon J, Saunders B, Sawicki P, Schmidt K, Schuepfer K, Schultze T, Schulz-Hardt S, Schütz A, Shabazian AN, Shubella RL, Siegel A, Silva R, Sioma B, Skorb L, de Souza LEC, Steegen S, Stein LAR, Sternglanz RW, Stojilović D, Storage D, Sullivan GB, Szaszi B, Szecsi P, Szöke O, Szuts A, Thomae M, Tidwell ND, Tocco C, Torka AK, Tuerlinckx F, Vanpaemel W, Vaughn LA, Vianello M, Viganola D, Vlachou M, Walker RJ, Weissgerber SC, Wichman AL, Wiggins BJ, Wolf D, Wood MJ, Zealley D, Žeželj I, Zrubka M, Nosek BA. Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data-Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Replicability. ADVANCES IN METHODS AND PRACTICES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/2515245920958687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Replication studies in psychological science sometimes fail to reproduce prior findings. If these studies use methods that are unfaithful to the original study or ineffective in eliciting the phenomenon of interest, then a failure to replicate may be a failure of the protocol rather than a challenge to the original finding. Formal pre-data-collection peer review by experts may address shortcomings and increase replicability rates. We selected 10 replication studies from the Reproducibility Project: Psychology (RP:P; Open Science Collaboration, 2015) for which the original authors had expressed concerns about the replication designs before data collection; only one of these studies had yielded a statistically significant effect ( p < .05). Commenters suggested that lack of adherence to expert review and low-powered tests were the reasons that most of these RP:P studies failed to replicate the original effects. We revised the replication protocols and received formal peer review prior to conducting new replication studies. We administered the RP:P and revised protocols in multiple laboratories (median number of laboratories per original study = 6.5, range = 3–9; median total sample = 1,279.5, range = 276–3,512) for high-powered tests of each original finding with both protocols. Overall, following the preregistered analysis plan, we found that the revised protocols produced effect sizes similar to those of the RP:P protocols (Δ r = .002 or .014, depending on analytic approach). The median effect size for the revised protocols ( r = .05) was similar to that of the RP:P protocols ( r = .04) and the original RP:P replications ( r = .11), and smaller than that of the original studies ( r = .37). Analysis of the cumulative evidence across the original studies and the corresponding three replication attempts provided very precise estimates of the 10 tested effects and indicated that their effect sizes (median r = .07, range = .00–.15) were 78% smaller, on average, than the original effect sizes (median r = .37, range = .19–.50).
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- Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
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- LIP/PC2S, Université Grenoble Alpes
- Institut Universitaire de France
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- Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
- Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
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- Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
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- Institute for Research and Development of Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University
- Faculty of Education, University of Presov
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
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- Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Presov
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- Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Presov
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- Department of Food Marketing, Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph’s University
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- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health, Brown University
- Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Nova Southeastern University
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- Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca
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- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
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- Department of Educational Science, University of Genova
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- Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago
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- Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Belgrade
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- Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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- Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
- Department of Economics, University of Innsbruck
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- Department of Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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- Institute of Evolution, Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest, Hungary
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- Psychology and Neuroscience Department, Boston College
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- Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Department of Psychology, New York University
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- Department of Psychology, Loyola Marymount University
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- Department of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- Department of Social & Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome
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- Department of Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University
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- Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
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- Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University
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- Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- School of Arts, Technology, Emerging Media, & Communication, University of Texas at Dallas
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- Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
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- Department of Psychology & Special Education, Texas A&M University-Commerce
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- Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
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- Department of Psychology, University of Porto
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- Linguistics & English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh
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- Marketing Department, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Nova Southeastern University
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine
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- Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University–Idaho
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- Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
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- Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
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- Marketing Department, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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- Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Belgrade
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
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- Department of Human Science, European University of Rome
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš
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- Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
- Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
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- Department of Psychology, University of Porto
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Nova Southeastern University
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- Department of Psychology, Murray State University
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- Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
- Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
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- School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen
- Leibniz Science Campus Primate Cognition, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen
- Leibniz Science Campus Primate Cognition, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- Department of Psychology, University of Porto
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- Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
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- Psychology and Neuroscience Department, Boston College
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- Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven
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- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health, Brown University
- Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island
- Rhode Island Training School, Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
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- MEU - Die Multiversität
- Diploma University of Applied Sciences
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York
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- Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven
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- Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova
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- Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Western Kentucky University
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bamberg
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- Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University–Idaho
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- Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam
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- Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
- Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Chartier CR, Arnal JD, Arrow H, Bloxsom NG, Bonfiglio DBV, Brumbaugh CC, Corker KS, Ebersole CR, Garinther A, Giessner SR, Hughes S, Inzlicht M, Lin H, Mercier B, Metzger M, Rangel D, Saunders B, Schmidt K, Storage D, Tocco C. Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Albarracín et al. (2008), Experiment 5. ADVANCES IN METHODS AND PRACTICES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/2515245920945963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In Experiment 5 of Albarracín et al. (2008), participants primed with words associated with action performed better on a subsequent cognitive task than did participants primed with words associated with inaction. A direct replication attempt by Frank, Kim, and Lee (2016) as part of the Reproducibility Project: Psychology (RP:P) failed to find evidence for this effect. In this article, we discuss several potential explanations for these discrepant findings: the source of participants (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk vs. traditional undergraduate-student pool), the setting of participation (online vs. in lab), and the possible moderating role of affect. We tested Albarracín et al.’s original hypothesis in two new samples: For the first sample, we followed the protocol developed by Frank et al. and recruited participants via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk ( n = 580). For the second sample, we used a revised protocol incorporating feedback from the original authors and recruited participants from eight universities ( n = 884). We did not detect moderation by protocol; patterns in the revised protocol resembled those in our implementation of the RP:P protocol, but the estimate of the focal effect size was smaller than that found originally by Albarracín et al. and larger than that found in Frank et al.’s replication attempt. We discuss these findings and possible explanations.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
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- Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine
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- School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York
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Corker KS, Arnal JD, Bonfiglio DBV, Curran PG, Chartier CR, Chopik WJ, Guadagno RE, Kimbrough AM, Schmidt K, Wiggins BJ. Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Albarracín et al. (2008), Experiment 7. ADVANCES IN METHODS AND PRACTICES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/2515245920925750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Albarracín et al. (2008, Experiment 7) tested whether priming action or inaction goals (vs. no goal) and then satisfying those goals (vs. not satisfying them) would be associated with subsequent cognitive responding. They hypothesized and found that priming action or inaction goals that were not satisfied resulted in greater or lesser responding, respectively, compared with not priming goals ( N = 98). Sonnleitner and Voracek (2015) attempted to directly replicate Albarracín et al.’s (2008) study with German participants ( N = 105). They did not find evidence for the 3 × 2 interaction or the expected main effect of task type. The current study attempted to directly replicate Albarracín et al. (2008), Experiment 7, with a larger sample of participants ( N = 1,690) from seven colleges and universities in the United States. We also extended the study design by using a scrambled-sentence task to prime goals instead of the original task of completing word fragments, allowing us to test whether study protocol moderated any effects of interest. We did not detect moderation by protocol in the full 3 × 2 × 2 design (pseudo- r2 = 0.05%). Results for both protocols were largely consistent with Sonnleitner and Voracek’s findings (pseudo- r2s = 0.14% and 0.50%). We consider these results in light of recent findings concerning priming methods and discuss the robustness of action-/inaction-goal priming to the implementation of different protocols in this particular context.
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- School of Arts, Technology, Emerging Media, & Communication, University of Texas at Dallas
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- School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Williams L, McSorley E, McCloy R. Enhanced Associations With Actions of the Artist Influence Gaze Behaviour. Iperception 2020; 11:2041669520911059. [PMID: 32206293 PMCID: PMC7074529 DOI: 10.1177/2041669520911059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The aesthetic experience of the perceiver of art has been suggested to relate to the art-making process of the artist. The artist's gestures during the creation process have been stated to influence the perceiver's art-viewing experience. However, limited studies explore the art-viewing experience in relation to the creative process of the artist. We introduced eye-tracking measures to further establish how congruent actions with the artist influence perceiver's gaze behaviour. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that simultaneous congruent and incongruent actions do not influence gaze behaviour. However, brushstroke paintings were found to be more pleasing than pointillism paintings. In Experiment 3, participants were trained to associate painting actions with hand primes to enhance visuomotor and visuovisual associations with the artist's actions. A greater amount of time was spent fixating brushstroke paintings when presented with a congruent prime compared with an incongruent prime, and fewer fixations were made to these styles of paintings when presented with an incongruent prime. The results suggest that explicit links that allow perceivers to resonate with the artist's actions lead to greater exploration of preferred artwork styles.
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- Louis Williams
- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
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- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
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- School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
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Acting by a deadline: The interplay between deadline distance and movement induced goals. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Examining reproducibility in psychology: A hybrid method for combining a statistically significant original study and a replication. Behav Res Methods 2019; 50:1515-1539. [PMID: 28936638 PMCID: PMC6096648 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-017-0967-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The unrealistically high rate of positive results within psychology has increased the attention to replication research. However, researchers who conduct a replication and want to statistically combine the results of their replication with a statistically significant original study encounter problems when using traditional meta-analysis techniques. The original study's effect size is most probably overestimated because it is statistically significant, and this bias is not taken into consideration in traditional meta-analysis. We have developed a hybrid method that does take the statistical significance of an original study into account and enables (a) accurate effect size estimation, (b) estimation of a confidence interval, and (c) testing of the null hypothesis of no effect. We analytically approximate the performance of the hybrid method and describe its statistical properties. By applying the hybrid method to data from the Reproducibility Project: Psychology (Open Science Collaboration, 2015), we demonstrate that the conclusions based on the hybrid method are often in line with those of the replication, suggesting that many published psychological studies have smaller effect sizes than those reported in the original study, and that some effects may even be absent. We offer hands-on guidelines for how to statistically combine an original study and replication, and have developed a Web-based application ( https://rvanaert.shinyapps.io/hybrid ) for applying the hybrid method.
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Albarracin D, Wang W, McCulloch KC. Action Dominance: The Performance Effects of Multiple Action Demands and the Benefits of an Inaction Focus. PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN 2018; 44:996-1007. [PMID: 29534649 PMCID: PMC7234802 DOI: 10.1177/0146167218756031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Four experiments uncovered an action dominance error by which people's natural focus on actions hinders appropriate responses to social and nonsocial stimuli. This surprising error comprises higher rates of both omission (misses) and commission (false alarms) when, in responding to action and inaction demands, people have higher numbers of action targets. The action dominance error was verified over four experiments using an analog that required responses to words and to target individuals. Experiments 1 and 2 tested our hypotheses and distinguished the action error effect from the effects of practicing action or inaction responses. Experiment 3 linked the error to the greater cognitive load imposed by the higher proportion of action over inaction targets. Furthermore, Experiment 4 demonstrated that (a) there is a default tendency to pay more attention to action (vs. inaction) targets and (b) shifting focus to inaction targets reduces the action dominance error.
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- 2 University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
- 3 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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Albarracin D, Jones CR, Hepler J, Li H. Liking for Action and the Vertical/Horizontal Dimension of Culture in Nineteen Nations: Valuing Equality over Hierarchy Promotes Positivity Towards Action. REVISTA INTERAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGIA = INTERAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2018; 51:335-343. [PMID: 32322126 PMCID: PMC7176319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The question of who should act, and how often, is critical for cultures and the regulation of social behavior. The vertical/horizontal dimension of culture describes the relative valuing of hierarchy versus equality. In a horizontal culture valuing equality, responsibility for action is more widely distributed than in a vertical culture valuing hierarchy. The relation between this cultural dimension and general attitudes towards action and inaction was tested with a large-scale survey of respondents from 19 nations. A multi-level model indicated that liking for action was especially associated with horizontality--the valuing of equality. Although values can generally be expressed through various compatible actions, horizontality (valuing equality) entails endorsing distributed responsibility for action and its outcomes, promoting general favorability towards action. In contrast, verticality includes countervailing components that discourage action by promoting norms that constrain who should act in accordance to status.
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Albarracín D, Wilson K, Sally Chan MP, Durantini M, Sanchez F. Action and inaction in multi-behaviour recommendations: a meta-analysis of lifestyle interventions. Health Psychol Rev 2018; 12:1-24. [PMID: 28831848 PMCID: PMC7069597 DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2017.1369140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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This meta-analysis examined theoretical predictions about the effects of different combinations of action (e.g., start an exercise regime) and of inaction (e.g., reduce screen time, rest in between weight lifting series) recommendations in smoking, diet, and physical activity multiple-domain interventions. The synthesis included 150 research reports of interventions promoting multiple behaviour domain change and measuring change at the most immediate follow-up. The main outcome measure was an indicator of overall change that combined behavioural and clinical effects. There were two main findings. First, as predicted, interventions produced the highest level of change when they included a predominance of recommendations along one behavioural dimension (i.e., predominantly inaction or predominantly action). Unexpectedly, within interventions with predominant action or inaction recommendations, those including predominantly inaction recommendations had greater efficacy than those including predominantly action recommendations. This effect, however, was limited to interventions in the diet and exercise domains, but reversed (greater efficacy for interventions with predominant action vs. inaction recommendations) in the smoking domain. These findings provide important insights on how to best combine recommendations when interventions target clusters of health behaviours.
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This review covers research on attitudes and attitude change published between 2010 and 2017. We characterize this period as one of significant progress toward an understanding of how attitudes form and change in three critical contexts. The first context is the person, as attitudes change in connection to values, general goals, language, emotions, and human development. The second context is social relationships, which link attitude change to the communicator of persuasive messages, social media, and culture. The third context is sociohistorical and highlights the influence of unique events, including sociopolitical, economic, and climatic occurrences. In conclusion, many important recent findings reflect the fact that holism, with a focus on situating attitudes within their personal, social, and historical contexts, has become the zeitgeist of attitude research during this period.
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- Dolores Albarracin
- Department of Psychology and Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61822; ,
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- Department of Psychology and Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61822; ,
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Regulating food consumption: Action messages can help or hurt. Appetite 2016; 107:280-284. [PMID: 27545673 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2016.08.100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2016] [Revised: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Previous research suggests that messages promoting active behavior change may inadvertently increase food consumption by promoting a general goal to act. We suggest that this is only the case for active-approach behaviors and that messages promoting active-avoidance behaviors may be used to effectively decrease food consumption. METHODS Participants were presented with healthy eating messages pretested to vary on the dimensions of direction (approach vs. avoid) and amount (action vs. inaction) of behavior. After viewing the messages, participants selected and consumed a healthy or unhealthy snack during a taste test. RESULTS There were no differences in snack selection (healthy vs. unhealthy) across message conditions. For messages promoting more active behavior, however, there was a significant difference in snack consumption such that participants viewing active-approach messages consumed significantly more food than participants viewing active-avoidance messages. This happened regardless of whether participants selected a healthy or unhealthy snack. For messages promoting less active behavior there was no difference in consumption between approach and avoidance based messages. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that when viewing health messages that promote active behavior change, individuals are sensitive to the direction of action advocated by the message (approach vs. avoidance) and modulate consumption accordingly.
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Blakemore RL, Neveu R, Vuilleumier P. How emotion context modulates unconscious goal activation during motor force exertion. Neuroimage 2016; 146:904-917. [PMID: 27833013 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2016] [Revised: 10/12/2016] [Accepted: 11/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Priming participants with emotional or action-related concepts influences goal formation and motor force output during effort exertion tasks, even without awareness of priming information. However, little is known about neural processes underpinning how emotional cues interact with action (or inaction) goals to motivate (or demotivate) motor behaviour. In a novel functional neuroimaging paradigm, visible emotional images followed by subliminal action or inaction word primes were presented before participants performed a maximal force exertion. In neutral emotional contexts, maximum force was lower following inaction than action primes. However, arousing emotional images had interactive motivational effects on the motor system: Unpleasant images prior to inaction primes increased force output (enhanced effort exertion) relative to control primes, and engaged a motivation-related network involving ventral striatum, extended amygdala, as well as right inferior frontal cortex. Conversely, pleasant images presented before action (versus control) primes decreased force and activated regions of the default-mode network, including inferior parietal lobule and medial prefrontal cortex. These findings show that emotional context can determine how unconscious goal representations influence motivational processes and are transformed into actual motor output, without direct rewarding contingencies. Furthermore, they provide insight into altered motor behaviour in psychopathological disorders with dysfunctional motivational processes.
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- Rebekah L Blakemore
- Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Geneva Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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- Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Geneva Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Neurology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Ireland ME, Chen Q, Schwartz HA, Ungar LH, Albarracin D. Action Tweets Linked to Reduced County-Level HIV Prevalence in the United States: Online Messages and Structural Determinants. AIDS Behav 2016; 20:1256-64. [PMID: 26650382 DOI: 10.1007/s10461-015-1252-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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HIV is uncommon in most US counties but travels quickly through vulnerable communities when it strikes. Tracking behavior through social media may provide an unobtrusive, naturalistic means of predicting HIV outbreaks and understanding the behavioral and psychological factors that increase communities' risk. General action goals, or the motivation to engage in cognitive and motor activity, may support protective health behavior (e.g., using condoms) or encourage activity indiscriminately (e.g., risky sex), resulting in mixed health effects. We explored these opposing hypotheses by regressing county-level HIV prevalence on action language (e.g., work, plan) in over 150 million tweets mapped to US counties. Controlling for demographic and structural predictors of HIV, more active language was associated with lower HIV rates. By leveraging language used on social media to improve existing predictive models of geographic variation in HIV, future targeted HIV-prevention interventions may have a better chance of reaching high-risk communities before outbreaks occur.
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- Molly E Ireland
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University, MS 2051, Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA.
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
- Department of Computer Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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Cheval B, Sarrazin P, Radel R. Processus automatiques et activités physiques bénéfiques pour la santé. ANNEE PSYCHOLOGIQUE 2016. [DOI: 10.3917/anpsy.162.0295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Weingarten E, Chen Q, McAdams M, Yi J, Hepler J, Albarracín D. From primed concepts to action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral effects of incidentally presented words. Psychol Bull 2016; 142:472-97. [PMID: 26689090 PMCID: PMC5783538 DOI: 10.1037/bul0000030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A meta-analysis assessed the behavioral impact of and psychological processes associated with presenting words connected to an action or a goal representation. The average and distribution of 352 effect sizes (analyzed using fixed-effects and random-effects models) was obtained from 133 studies (84 reports) in which word primes were incidentally presented to participants, with a nonopposite control group, before measuring a behavioral dependent variable. Findings revealed a small behavioral priming effect (dFE = 0.332, dRE = 0.352), which was robust across methodological procedures and only minimally biased by the publication of positive (vs. negative) results. Theory testing analyses indicated that more valued behavior or goal concepts (e.g., associated with important outcomes or values) were associated with stronger priming effects than were less valued behaviors. Furthermore, there was some evidence of persistence of goal effects over time. These results support the notion that goal activation contributes over and above perception-behavior in explaining priming effects. In summary, theorizing about the role of value and satisfaction in goal activation pointed to stronger effects of a behavior or goal concept on overt action. There was no evidence that expectancy (ease of achieving the goal) moderated priming effects. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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- Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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- Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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Reproducibility is a defining feature of science, but the extent to which it characterizes current research is unknown. We conducted replications of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in three psychology journals using high-powered designs and original materials when available. Replication effects were half the magnitude of original effects, representing a substantial decline. Ninety-seven percent of original studies had statistically significant results. Thirty-six percent of replications had statistically significant results; 47% of original effect sizes were in the 95% confidence interval of the replication effect size; 39% of effects were subjectively rated to have replicated the original result; and if no bias in original results is assumed, combining original and replication results left 68% with statistically significant effects. Correlational tests suggest that replication success was better predicted by the strength of original evidence than by characteristics of the original and replication teams.
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Across three experiments, participants formed a larger number of categories when in a state of high, compared to low, psychological power. Moreover, in contrast to prior categorization research, which suggests forming more categories is tantamount to reduced breadth of categorization, high-power participants also formed a larger number of superordinate (i.e., more abstract) categories than low-power participants. The present findings enhance the understanding of power in relation to categorization and simultaneously highlight the distinction between number and abstraction as fundamental aspects of categorization.
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Wilson K, Senay I, Durantini M, Sánchez F, Hennessy M, Spring B, Albarracín D. When it comes to lifestyle recommendations, more is sometimes less: a meta-analysis of theoretical assumptions underlying the effectiveness of interventions promoting multiple behavior domain change. Psychol Bull 2015; 141:474-509. [PMID: 25528345 PMCID: PMC4801324 DOI: 10.1037/a0038295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A meta-analysis of 150 research reports summarizing the results of multiple behavior domain interventions examined theoretical predictions about the effects of the included number of recommendations on behavioral and clinical change in the domains of smoking, diet, and physical activity. The meta-analysis yielded 3 main conclusions. First, there is a curvilinear relation between the number of behavioral recommendations and improvements in behavioral and clinical measures, with a moderate number of recommendations producing the highest level of change. A moderate number of recommendations is likely to be associated with stronger effects because the intervention ensures the necessary level of motivation to implement the recommended changes, thereby increasing compliance with the goals set by the intervention, without making the intervention excessively demanding. Second, this curve was more pronounced when samples were likely to have low motivation to change, such as when interventions were delivered to nonpatient (vs. patient) populations, were implemented in nonclinic (vs. clinic) settings, used lay community (vs. expert) facilitators, and involved group (vs. individual) delivery formats. Finally, change in behavioral outcomes mediated the effects of number of recommended behaviors on clinical change. These findings provide important insights that can help guide the design of effective multiple behavior domain interventions.
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Blanchfield A, Hardy J, Marcora S. Non-conscious visual cues related to affect and action alter perception of effort and endurance performance. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:967. [PMID: 25566014 PMCID: PMC4263011 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 11/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The psychobiological model of endurance performance proposes that endurance performance is determined by a decision-making process based on perception of effort and potential motivation. Recent research has reported that effort-based decision-making during cognitive tasks can be altered by non-conscious visual cues relating to affect and action. The effects of these non-conscious visual cues on effort and performance during physical tasks are however unknown. We report two experiments investigating the effects of subliminal priming with visual cues related to affect and action on perception of effort and endurance performance. In Experiment 1 thirteen individuals were subliminally primed with happy or sad faces as they cycled to exhaustion in a counterbalanced and randomized crossover design. A paired t-test (happy vs. sad faces) revealed that individuals cycled significantly longer (178 s, p = 0.04) when subliminally primed with happy faces. A 2 × 5 (condition × iso-time) ANOVA also revealed a significant main effect of condition on rating of perceived exertion (RPE) during the time to exhaustion (TTE) test with lower RPE when subjects were subliminally primed with happy faces (p = 0.04). In Experiment 2, a single-subject randomization tests design found that subliminal priming with action words facilitated a significantly longer TTE (399 s, p = 0.04) in comparison to inaction words. Like Experiment 1, this greater TTE was accompanied by a significantly lower RPE (p = 0.03). These experiments are the first to show that subliminal visual cues relating to affect and action can alter perception of effort and endurance performance. Non-conscious visual cues may therefore influence the effort-based decision-making process that is proposed to determine endurance performance. Accordingly, the findings raise notable implications for individuals who may encounter such visual cues during endurance competitions, training, or health related exercise.
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- Anthony Blanchfield
- Institute for the Psychology of Elite Performance (IPEP), School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
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- Institute for the Psychology of Elite Performance (IPEP), School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
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- Endurance Research Group, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Kent Chatham, Kent, UK
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Ireland ME, Hepler J, Li H, Albarracín D. Neuroticism and attitudes toward action in 19 countries. J Pers 2014; 83:243-50. [PMID: 24684688 DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Although individuals scoring high on Neuroticism tend to avoid taking action when faced with challenges, Neuroticism is also characterized by impulsivity. To explore cognitive biases related to this costly behavior pattern, we tested whether individuals who rated themselves as higher in Neuroticism would evaluate the general concepts of action and inaction as, respectively, more negative and positive. We further investigated whether anxiety and depression would mediate and individualism-collectivism would moderate these relations in a large international sample. Participants (N = 3,827 college students; 69% female) from 19 countries completed surveys measuring Neuroticism, attitudes toward action and inaction, depression, anxiety, and individualism-collectivism. Hierarchical linear models tested the above predictions. Neuroticism negatively correlated with attitudes toward action and positively correlated with attitudes toward inaction. Furthermore, anxiety was primarily responsible for emotionally unstable individuals' less positive attitudes toward action, and individuals who endorsed more collectivistic than individualistic beliefs showed a stronger negative association between Neuroticism and attitudes toward action. Researchers and practitioners interested in understanding and remediating the negative consequences of Neuroticism should pay greater attention to attitudes toward action and inaction, particularly focusing on their links with anxiety and individualism-collectivism.
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Hepler J, Albarracin D. Liking More Means Doing More: Dispositional Attitudes Predict Patterns of General Action. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2014; 45:391-398. [PMID: 29375723 PMCID: PMC5783546 DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Dispositional attitudes are an individual difference in the tendency to form positive versus negative attitudes. As positive (negative) attitudes promote active (inactive) responses to stimuli, we predicted that dispositional attitudes would be positively correlated with patterns of general action. In Study 1, participants reported all activities they engaged in during a 1-week period using a structured time use survey. Dispositional attitudes were positively correlated with the number of unique behaviors participants engaged in and with the total number of behaviors reported for the entire week. Study 2 replicated Study 1 using a free response time use survey. Overall, the results demonstrated that dispositional attitudes predict general action, such that the tendency to form positive (negative) attitudes predicts the tendency to engage in many (few) behaviors in daily life. This pattern occurred for both low effort and high effort behaviors. Implications for understanding activity patterns are discussed.
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- Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
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Zell E, Su R, Li H, Ringo Ho MH, Hong S, Kumkale T, Stauffer SD, Zecca G, Cai H, Roccas S, Arce-Michel J, de Sousa C, Diaz-Loving R, Botero MM, Mannetti L, Garcia C, Carrera P, Cabalero A, Ikemi M, Chan D, Bernardo A, Garcia F, Brechan I, Maio G, Albarracín D. Cultural Differences in Attitudes Toward Action and Inaction: The Role of Dialecticism. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE 2013; 4:521-528. [PMID: 30147848 DOI: 10.1177/1948550612468774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The current research examined whether nations differ in their attitudes toward action and inaction. It was anticipated that members of dialectical East Asian societies would show a positive association in their attitudes toward action/inaction. However, members of non-dialectical European-American societies were expected to show a negative association in their attitudes toward action/inaction. Young adults in 19 nations completed measures of dialectical thinking and attitudes toward action/inaction. Results from multi-level modeling showed, as predicted, that people from high dialecticism nations reported a more positive association in their attitudes toward action and inaction than people from low dialecticism nations. Furthermore, these findings remained after controlling for cultural differences in individualism-collectivism, neuroticism, gross-domestic product, and response style. Discussion highlights the implications of these findings for action/inaction goals, dialecticism, and culture.
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- Ethan Zell
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- Battelle Center for Analytics and Public Health, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- Centro de Investigaciones y Asistencia en Psicología, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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- Cardiff University, Cardiff, England
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Hart W, Gable PA. Motivating goal pursuit: The role of affect motivational intensity and activated goals. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hepler J, Albarracin D. Complete unconscious control: using (in)action primes to demonstrate completely unconscious activation of inhibitory control mechanisms. Cognition 2013; 128:271-9. [PMID: 23747649 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2012] [Revised: 04/28/2013] [Accepted: 04/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Although robust evidence indicates that action initiation can occur unconsciously and unintentionally, the literature on action inhibition suggests that inhibition requires both conscious thought and intentionality. In prior research demonstrating automatic inhibition in response to unconsciously processed stimuli, the unconscious stimuli had previously been consciously associated with an inhibitory response within the context of the experiment, and participants had consciously formed a goal to activate inhibition processes when presented with the stimuli (because task instructions required participants to engage in inhibition when the stimuli occurred). Therefore, prior work suggests that some amount of conscious thought and intentionality are required for inhibitory control. In the present research, we recorded event-related potentials during two go/no-go experiments in which participants were subliminally primed with general action/inaction concepts that had never been consciously associated with task-specific responses. We provide the first demonstration that inhibitory control processes can be modulated completely unconsciously and unintentionally.
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- Justin Hepler
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 E Daniel St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
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Hepler J, Albarracín D. Attitudes without objects: evidence for a dispositional attitude, its measurement, and its consequences. J Pers Soc Psychol 2013; 104:1060-76. [PMID: 23586409 PMCID: PMC3674219 DOI: 10.1037/a0032282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We hypothesized that individuals may differ in the dispositional tendency to have positive vs. negative attitudes, a trait termed the dispositional attitude. Across 4 studies, we developed a 16-item Dispositional Attitude Measure (DAM) and investigated its internal consistency, test-retest reliability, factor structure, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and predictive validity. DAM scores were (a) positively correlated with positive affect traits, curiosity-related traits, and individual preexisting attitudes; (b) negatively correlated with negative affect traits; and (c) uncorrelated with theoretically unrelated traits. Dispositional attitudes also significantly predicted the valence of novel attitudes while controlling for theoretically relevant traits (such as the Big 5 and optimism). The dispositional attitude construct represents a new perspective in which attitudes are not simply a function of the properties of the stimuli under consideration, but are also a function of the properties of the evaluator. We discuss the intriguing implications of dispositional attitudes for many areas of research, including attitude formation, persuasion, and behavior prediction.
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- Justin Hepler
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
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McCulloch KC, Li H, Hong S, Albarracin D. Naïve Definitions of Action and Inaction: The Continuum, Spread, and Valence of Behaviors. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2012; 42:227-234. [PMID: 23487013 PMCID: PMC3593352 DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The cohesiveness of a society depends, in part, on how its individual members manage their daily activities with respect to the goals of that society. Hence, there should be a degree of social agreement on what constitutes action and what constitutes inaction. The present research investigated the structure of action and inaction definitions, the evaluation of action versus inaction, and individual differences in these evaluations. Action-inaction ratings of behaviors and states showed more social agreement at the ends of the inaction-action continuum than at the middle, suggesting a socially shared construal of this definition. Action-inaction ratings were also shown to correlate with the valence of the rated behaviors, such that the more active the behavior the more positive its valence. Lastly, individual differences in locomotion, need for closure, and Christian religious beliefs correlated positively with a preference for action.
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Albarracin D, Hart W. Positive mood + action = negative mood + inaction: effects of general action and inaction concepts on decisions and performance as a function of affect. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 11:951-7. [PMID: 21859209 DOI: 10.1037/a0024130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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General action and inaction concepts have been shown to produce broad, goal-mediated effects on cognitive and motor activity irrespective of the type of activity. The current research tested a model in which action and inaction goals interact with the valence of incidental moods to guide behavior. Over four experiments, participants' moods were manipulated to be positive (happy), neutral, or negative (angry or sad), and then general action, inaction, and neutral concepts were primed. In Experiment 1, action primes increased intellectual performance when participants experienced a positive (happy) or neutral mood, whereas inaction primes increased performance when participants experienced a negative (angry) mood. Including a control-prime condition, Experiments 2 and 3 replicated these results measuring the number of general interest articles participants were willing to read and participants' memory for pictures of celebrities. Experiment 4 replicated the results comparing happiness with sadness and suggested that the effect of the prime's adoption was automatic. Overall, the findings supported an interactive model by which action concepts and positive affect produce the same increases in active behavior as inaction concepts and negative affect.
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- Dolores Albarracin
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
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Légal JB, Chappé J, Coiffard V, Villard-Forest A. Don't you know that you want to trust me? Subliminal goal priming and persuasion. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Hepler J, Wang W, Albarracin D. Motivating Exercise: The Interactive Effect of General Action Goals and Past Behavior on Physical Activity. MOTIVATION AND EMOTION 2011; 36:365-370. [PMID: 23606776 DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9267-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Although exercise is recognized as a powerful tool to combat obesity, remarkably few US adults pursue adequate amounts of exercise, with one major impediment being a lack of motivation for active behaviors. Recent empirical work has demonstrated that behavior can be guided by goals to be generally active or inactive. In the present paper, an experiment is presented in which participants played or observed a video game, were primed with action or inaction goals, and practiced a stretching exercise for as long as desired. Exposure to environmental action cues led to increased time spent exercising. This effect was moderated by past behavior, such that individuals who had just engaged in an active task (played a videogame) were insensitive to attempts to motivate general action. This suggests that the effectiveness of attempts to motivate activity ("just do it", "be active") hinges on the recent past-behavior of the targeted individuals. An implication of this work is that participation in certain leisure activities, such as playing videogames, may be causally related to a lack of motivation for exercise.
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Handley IM, Runnion BM. Evidence that Unconscious Thinking Influences Persuasion Based on Argument Quality. SOCIAL COGNITION 2011. [DOI: 10.1521/soco.2011.29.6.668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hepler J, Albarracin D, McCulloch KC, Noguchi K. Being Active and Impulsive: The Role of Goals for Action and Inaction in Self-Control. MOTIVATION AND EMOTION 2011; 36:416-424. [PMID: 23766548 DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9263-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Although self-control often requires behavioral inaction (i.e., not eating a piece of cake), the process of inhibiting impulsive behavior is commonly characterized as cognitively active (i.e., actively exerting self-control). Two experiments examined whether motivation for action or inaction facilitates self-control behavior in the presence of tempting stimuli. Experiment 1 used a delay discounting task to assess the ability to delay gratification with respect to money. Experiment 2 used a Go/No-Go task to assess the ability to inhibit a dominant but incorrect motor response to the words "condom" and "sex". The results demonstrate that goals for inaction promote self-control, whereas goals for action promote impulsive behavior. These findings are discussed in light of recent evidence suggesting that goals for action and inaction modulate physiological resources that promote behavioral execution.
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Albarracín D, Handley IM. The time for doing is not the time for change: effects of general action and inaction goals on attitude retrieval and attitude change. J Pers Soc Psychol 2011; 100:983-98. [PMID: 21639651 PMCID: PMC3593353 DOI: 10.1037/a0023245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Implicit in many informal and formal principles of psychological change is the understudied assumption that change requires either an active approach or an inactive approach. This issue was systematically investigated by comparing the effects of general action goals and general inaction goals on attitude change. As prior attitudes facilitate preparation for an upcoming persuasive message, general action goals were hypothesized to facilitate conscious retrieval of prior attitudes and therefore hinder attitude change to a greater extent than general inaction goals. Experiment 1 demonstrated that action primes (e.g., "go," "energy") yielded faster attitude report than inaction primes (e.g., "rest," "still") among participants who were forewarned of an upcoming persuasive message. Experiment 2 showed that the faster attitude report identified in Experiment 1 was localized on attitudes toward a message topic participants were prepared to receive. Experiments 3, 4, and 5 showed that, compared with inaction primes, action primes produced less attitude change and less argument scrutiny in response to a counterattitudinal message on a previously forewarned topic. Experiment 6 confirmed that the effects of the primes on attitude change were due to differential attitude retrieval. That is, when attitude expression was induced immediately after the primes, action and inaction goals produced similar amounts of attitude change. In contrast, when no attitude expression was induced after the prime, action goals produced less attitude change than inaction goals. Finally, Experiment 7 validated the assumption that these goal effects can be reduced or reversed when the goals have already been satisfied by an intervening task.
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- Dolores Albarracín
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
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In light of U.S. society’s ever increasing need for activity, the authors used three experiments to examine how general action concepts, activated by subtle priming methods, influence choices to approach information that confirms a recent decision. Findings from Experiments 1 to 3 revealed that viewing action (vs. control) words prior to information selection increased selective approach to supporting information, but viewing inaction (vs. control) words reduced this bias. Experiment 3 also showed that the effect of the action words on this confirmation bias was smaller when participants were allowed to self-affirm by writing about an important personal value. In addition, the experiments found that viewing the action words caused the selection of more total information than viewing the inaction words. The authors conclude that the growing need for activity in the United States may contribute to a loss of objectivity in the way citizens gather information.
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- William Hart
- Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, IL, USA
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Capa RL, Cleeremans A, Bustin GM, Hansenne M. Long-lasting effect of subliminal processes on cardiovascular responses and performance. Int J Psychophysiol 2011; 81:22-30. [PMID: 21515314 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2011] [Revised: 04/05/2011] [Accepted: 04/07/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Students were exposed to a priming task in which subliminal representations of the goal of studying were directly paired (priming-positive group) or not (priming group) to positive words. A control group without subliminal prime of the goal was added. Just after the priming task, students performed an easy or a difficult learning task based on their coursework. Participants in the priming-positive group performed better and had a stronger decrease of pulse transit time and pulse wave amplitude reactivity than participants of the two other groups, but only during the difficult condition. Results suggested that subliminal priming induces effortful behavior extending over twenty five minutes but only when the primes had been associated with visible positive words acting as a reward. These findings provide evidence that subliminal priming can have long-lasting effects on behaviors typical of daily life.
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- Rémi L Capa
- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Liège, Belgium.
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Albarracin D, Hepler J, Tannenbaum M. General Action and Inaction Goals: Their Behavioral, Cognitive, and Affective Origins and Influences. CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2011; 20:119-123. [PMID: 23766569 DOI: 10.1177/0963721411402666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Since the 1970s, researchers on motivation and behavior have taken the stance that important human behaviors are determined by specific attitudes, intentions, and goals. In the present article, we review evidence suggesting that, in addition to specific motivational constructs, general goals of action and inaction are also vital determinants of many important human behaviors. This research examines the effects of these goals on motor behavior, cognitive performance, and political participation. Furthermore, we connect these general action and inaction goals with other important areas in psychology, including affect, approach/avoidance, energization, material resources, mindsets, and power. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of individual and regional/cultural differences in action and inaction. Overall, general goals for action and inaction are shown to influence a vast array of important behaviors, suggesting that in addition to considering specific attitudes, intentions, and goals, researchers may gain important insight into human behavior by considering general motivations.
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Silvia PJ, Jones HC, Kelly CS, Zibaie A. Masked first name priming increases effort-related cardiovascular reactivity. Int J Psychophysiol 2011; 80:210-6. [PMID: 21439332 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2011] [Revised: 03/09/2011] [Accepted: 03/15/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Recent research on motivational intensity has shown that explicit manipulations of self-focused attention (e.g., mirrors and video cameras) increase effort-related cardiovascular responses during active coping. An experiment examined whether masked first name priming, an implicit manipulation of self-focused attention, had similar effects. Participants (n=52 young adults) performed a self-paced cognitive task, in which they were told to get as many trials correct as possible within 5min. During the task, the participant's first name was primed for 0%, 33%, 67%, or 100% of the trials. First name priming, regardless of its frequency, significantly increased cardiovascular reactivity, particularly systolic blood pressure (SBP) reactivity. Furthermore, the priming manipulation interacted with individual differences in trait self-focus: trait self-focus predicted higher SBP reactivity in the 0% condition, but first name priming eliminated the effects of individual differences. Implications for self-awareness research and for the emerging interest in priming effects on effort are considered.
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- Paul J Silvia
- Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, USA.
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van Kleef E, Shimizu M, Wansink B. Food compensation: do exercise ads change food intake? Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2011; 8:6. [PMID: 21276218 PMCID: PMC3038872 DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-8-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2010] [Accepted: 01/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Past research has shown that promotional messages such as food advertising influence food consumption. However, what has gone largely unexplored is the effect of exercise advertising on food intake. This study experimentally tested the effects of exposure to exercise commercials on food intake at a lunch meal as compared to the effects of control commercials. Methods Prior to eating lunch, 125 participants (71 women, 54 men) watched 8 commercials, either all related to exercise or fitness (n = 67) or neutral products (i.e. car insurance) (n = 58). The meal consisted of a pasta dish with tomato sauce, salad and chocolate pudding. The post-lunch questionnaire included questions about body mass index, exercise habits, motivation and dietary restraint. Results Participants exposed to exercise commercials reduced their caloric intake by 21.7% relative to the control condition. Additionally, watching exercise messages increased the perceived healthiness and liking of the meal. Although exercise habits and intentions did not moderate the effect of commercial condition on food intake, we also found that this intake reduction was driven by participants with higher body mass index levels. Conclusions These results imply that exercise messages may serve as a reminder of the link between food and physical activity and affect food consumption. It also highlights the need for increased awareness that these messages have powerful influences not only on exercise behavior, but also on closely related behaviors such as eating.
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- Ellen van Kleef
- Wageningen University, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Group, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Noguchi K, Handley IM, Albarracín D. Participating in politics resembles physical activity: general action patterns in international archives, United States archives, and experiments. Psychol Sci 2010; 22:235-42. [PMID: 21177515 DOI: 10.1177/0956797610393746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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A series of studies examined whether political participation can emerge from general patterns of indiscriminate activity. In the first two studies, general action tendencies were measured by combining national and state-level indicators of high activity (e.g., impulsiveness, pace of life, and physical activity) from international and U.S. data. This action-tendency index positively correlated with a measure of political participation that consisted of voting behaviors and participation in political demonstrations. The following two experimental studies indicated that participants exposed to action words (e.g., go, move) had stronger intentions to vote in an upcoming election and volunteered more time to make phone calls on behalf of a university policy than participants exposed to inaction words did (e.g., relax, stop). These studies suggest that political participation can be predicted from general tendencies toward activity present at the national and state levels, as well as from verbal prompts suggestive of activity.
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- Kenji Noguchi
- Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 730 East Beach Blvd., Long Beach, MS 39560, USA.
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In this study, we examined the hypothesis that masked general action and inaction cues that are processed during a cognitive task directly mobilize effort exerted during the task. Participants were randomly assigned to an action-prime condition, an inaction-prime condition, or a control condition and performed a Sternberg short-term memory task. The intensity of effort the participants exerted during the task was estimated by measuring their heart responses (cardiac preejection period, PEP) during task performance. As expected, exposure to masked action cues resulted in stronger PEP reactivity than exposure to masked inaction cues. PEP reactivity in the control group fell in between reactivity when action cues were used and reactivity when inaction cues were used. Participants’ task performance revealed a corresponding pattern: Reaction times were the shortest in the action-prime condition, increased in the control condition, and increased further in the inaction-prime condition. These results show that masked action cues and inaction cues directly influence the intensity of effort exerted in the performance of a task.
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Fessel F. Increasing Level of Aspiration by Matching Construal Level and Temporal Distance. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE 2010. [DOI: 10.1177/1948550610381788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The current research demonstrates that construal level has opposing effects on level of aspiration depending on the goal’s temporal distance: A concrete goal leads to a higher level of aspiration in the proximate future, but an abstract goal leads to a higher level of aspiration in the distant future. Two reasons are proposed for this interactive effect. First, these combinations of abstraction and distance afford functional advantages in goal pursuit. Second, given prior demonstrations of the relationship between concreteness and proximity on one hand and abstraction and distance on the other hand, these combinations provide value from fit in that goal pursuit subjectively seems appropriate and important. Taken together, this line of research points to one reason why prior research on the motivating effects of construal level has led to equivocal results by implicating the moderating role of temporal distance.
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Smallman R, Roese NJ. Counterfactual Thinking Facilitates Behavioral Intentions. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2009; 45:845-852. [PMID: 20161221 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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People often ponder what might have been, and these counterfactual inferences have been linked to behavior regulation. Counterfactuals may enhance performance by either a content-specific pathway (via shift in behavioral intentions) and/or a content-neutral pathway (via mindsets or motivation). Three experiments provided new specification of the content-specific pathway. A sequential priming paradigm revealed that counterfactual judgments facilitated RTs to complete behavioral intention judgments relative to control judgments and to a no-judgment baseline (Experiment 1). This facilitation effect was found only for intention judgments that matched the information content of the counterfactual (Experiment 2) and only for intention judgments as opposed to a different judgment that nevertheless focused on the same information content (Experiment 3). These findings clarify the content-specific pathway by which counterfactuals influence behavior.
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Briñol P, Petty RE, Wagner B. Body posture effects on self-evaluation: A self-validation approach. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Hart W, Albarracín D. What I was doing versus what I did: verb aspect influences memory and future actions. Psychol Sci 2009; 20:238-44. [PMID: 19170935 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02277.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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This research examined whether describing past actions as ongoing using the imperfective aspect (rather than describing them as completed using the perfective aspect) promotes memory for action-relevant knowledge and reenactment of these actions in a future context. In Experiment 1, participants who used the imperfective aspect to describe their strategy on a prior interpersonal task were more likely to use this strategy on a later task than were participants who used the perfective aspect to describe their prior strategy. Experiment 2 demonstrated that describing behaviors on a task using the imperfective rather than the perfective aspect increased willingness to resume that task by improving memory for task contents. The last two experiments showed that the effects of the imperfective aspect on memory decayed over time and that the imperfective aspect facilitated performance of a future behavior only when the described past behavior was relevant to the future behavior. Thus, the effects of aspect are moderated by memory decay and are behavior-specific.
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- William Hart
- Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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