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Priming and timing: a test of two perspectives
Author(s) -
Koomen Willem,
Stapel Diederik A.,
Jansen Stefanie S.,
In' T Veld Kyran H. R.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199807/08)28:4<681::aid-ejsp893>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - psychology , priming (agriculture) , conceptualization , contrast (vision) , assimilation (phonology) , social psychology , perspective (graphical) , test (biology) , cognitive psychology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , paleontology , philosophy , botany , germination , biology , computer science
Supporting a ‘stage’ perspective of assimilation and contrast effects, and in contrast to an ‘extremity’ conceptualization, this study demonstrated that priming moderate person exemplars before the behaviour of an ambiguous target person had been encoded results in assimilation, whereas priming such exemplars after encoding results in a small contrast effect. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.