[Somean] Social priming
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
kbck at ling.ohio-state.edu
Wed Mar 14 08:43:01 EDT 2012
Oops, forgot the link:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/03/10/failed-replication-bargh-psychology-study-doyen/
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Nicolai Pharao wrote:
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> Intriguing - but no link?
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> Den 13/03/2012 21.44 skrev "Kathryn Campbell-Kibler" <kbck at ling.ohio-state.edu>:
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> Brice directs us to this discussion of a recent fracas regarding the experiment about priming people with "elcerly" and them walking more slowly.
> Although the stury is marred by (apparently) Bargh and (in my judgment) the journalist/blog author being kind of childish, the key point is that a
> failed replication of a study suggests that it was unconscious experimenter influence, not direct priming, that caused the effect. Not sure what to
> make of it, but it seems to point in the direction of motivation, investment or engagement of some sort being necessary, not just exposure.
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> -K
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