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Evaluative learning with "subliminally" presented stimuli

J de Houwer1, H Hendrickx, F Baeyens

  • 1University of Leuven, Belgium. Jan.DeHouwer@psy.kuleuven.ac.be

Consciousness and Cognition
|March 1, 1997
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Implicit evaluative learning occurs even when affective stimuli are presented subliminally. This research demonstrates that affective associations can be learned without conscious awareness.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Evaluative learning involves associating a neutral stimulus (NS) with an affective stimulus (AS), altering the NS's evaluation.
  • Previous research suggests evaluative learning may occur implicitly, without conscious awareness of the AS.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether evaluative learning can occur when affective stimuli (AS) are presented subliminally.
  • To examine the role of conscious awareness and discrimination of AS in evaluative learning.

Main Methods:

  • Four experiments were conducted, varying the presentation duration and detectability of the affective stimulus (AS).
  • Participants' evaluative responses to a neutral stimulus (NS) were measured after its association with an AS.
  • A meta-analysis combined data from the current experiments and prior studies.

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Main Results:

  • Significant evaluative learning was observed when AS were presented too briefly to be noticed or discriminated.
  • No significant learning effects were found in experiments where AS were more detectable.
  • Meta-analysis confirmed a small but reliable evaluative learning effect for subliminally presented AS.

Conclusions:

  • Evaluative associations can be learned implicitly, even when affective stimuli are not consciously perceived.
  • Subliminal affective stimuli can influence evaluations, supporting theories of implicit associative learning.