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Replicable unconscious semantic priming.

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ID23367348
AuthorsSean C Draine (University of Washington), Anthony G Greenwald (0000-0001-6865-8552, University of Washington)
Year1998
Volume127
Issue3
Pages286-303
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Experimental Psychology: General (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0096-3445 • E-ISSN: 1939-2222
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/0096-3445.127.3.286
PMID9742717
OpenAlexW2108188540
LanguageEN
Citations received111
References cited16

In 4 experiments, subjects classified visually presented target words as pleasant-unpleasant words or male-female first names. Prime words were similar (congruent) or dissimilar (incongruent) in meaning to targets. Brief duration of prime words (17, 33, or 50 ms), along with pre- and postmasking, prevented most subjects from perceiving their physical and semantic properties. By constraining response latencies to fall within a response window--a narrow time band that occurred earlier than subjects would ordinarily respond--these experiments consistently produced subliminal priming effects, indicated by greater error rates for incongruent than congruent priming trials. This conclusion was confirmed by analyzing magnitude of priming as a regression function of prime perceptibility using the method of A. G. Greenwald, M. R. Klinger, and E. S. Schuh (1995). The data of each experiment passed their significant-intercept criterion for demonstrating unconscious cognition.

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