[Somean] Social priming

[Kathryn Campbell-Kibler]

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.

-K