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Affective priming with subliminally presented pictures.

Dirk Hermans1, Adriaan Spruyt, Jan De Houwer

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium. Dirk.Hermans@psy.kuleuven.ac.be

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology = Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale
|June 26, 2003
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Subliminal picture primes influence responses to target stimuli, affecting high anxious individuals differently. Reverse priming effects were observed, challenging existing affective priming theories.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Affective priming research typically uses word primes to show subliminal influence on responses.
  • Previous studies demonstrate that subliminal word primes can bias evaluations of subsequent stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if subliminal pictorial primes influence responses to target stimuli.
  • To examine the impact of prime-target affective congruence on response times.
  • To explore individual differences, particularly in high anxious participants.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments used sandwich-masked, ideographically selected positive, neutral, and negative picture primes.
  • Primes immediately preceded positive or negative target pictures or words.

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  • Evaluative categorization responses to targets were measured.

    • Main Results:

    • Subliminal picture primes significantly influenced evaluative categorization responses.
    • High anxious participants showed slowed responses to negative subliminal primes.
    • Affective congruence between primes and targets produced reverse priming effects.

    Conclusions:

    • Subliminal pictorial stimuli can exert affective priming effects.
    • High anxiety moderates responses to negative subliminal primes.
    • Observed reverse priming effects necessitate revisions to current affective priming models.