Test-Retest Reliability of Subliminal Facial Affective Priming

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ID13657806
AuthorsUdo Dannlowski (0000-0002-0623-3759, University of Münster, corresponding author), Thomas Suslow (0000-0003-4560-0555, University of Münster)
Year2006
Volume98
Issue1
Pages153-158
Publication date2006-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.98.1.153-158
PMID16673968
OpenAlexW2095398109
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

Since the seminal 1993 demonstrations o f Murphy an d Zajonc, researchers have replicated and extended findings concerning subliminal affective priming. So far, however, no data on test-retest reliability of affective priming effects are available. A subliminal facial affective priming task was administered to 22 healthy individuals (15 women and 7 men) twice about 7 wk. apart. Happy and sad facial expressions were used as affective primes and neutral Chinese ideographs served as target masks, which had to be evaluated. Neutral facial primes and a no-face condition served as baselines. All participants reported not having seen any of the prime faces at either testing session. Priming scores for affective faces compared to the baselines were computed. Acceptable test-retest correlations (rs) of up to .74 were found for the affective priming scores. Although measured almost 2 mo. apart, subliminal affective priming seems to be a temporally stable effect

Audiology · Cognitive psychology · Prime (order theory · Priming (agriculture · Reliability (semiconductor · Subliminal stimuli · Test (biology · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Face Recognition and Perception · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology

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