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Published on: April 12, 2018
Sequential priming measures of implicit social cognition: a meta-analysis of associations with behavior and explicit
C Daryl Cameron1, Jazmin L Brown-Iannuzzi, B Keith Payne
1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. dcameron@email.unc.edu
Abstract:
In a comprehensive meta-analysis of 167 studies, the authors found that sequential priming tasks were significantly associated with behavioral measures (r = .28) and with explicit attitude measures (r = .20). Priming tasks continued to predict behavior after controlling for the effects of explicit attitudes. These results generalized across a variety of study domains and methodological variations. Within-study moderator analyses revealed that priming tasks have good specificity, only predicting behavior and explicit measures under theoretically expected conditions. Together, these results indicate that sequential priming-one of the earliest methods of investigating implicit social cognition--continues to be a valid tool for the psychological scientist.
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