On the automatic activation of attitudes

A quarter century of evaluative priming research

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ID4419746
AuthorsDavid R Herring, Katherine White (0009-0009-1807-7990), Katherine R White, Linsa N Jabeen, Michelle Hinojos, Michelle R Hinojos, Gabriela Terrazas, Stephanie M Reye, Stephanie Marie Reyes, Jennifer Taylor (0000-0002-7133-2913), Jennifer H Taylor, Stephen L Crite, Stephen L Crites
Year2013
Volume139
Issue5
Pages1062-1089
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2909 • E-ISSN: 1939-1455
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/a0031309
PMID23339522
OpenAlexW2322182061
LanguageEN
Citations received27

Evaluation is a fundamental concept in psychological science. Limitations of self-report measures of evaluation led to an explosion of research on implicit measures of evaluation. One of the oldest and most frequently used implicit measurement paradigms is the evaluative priming paradigm developed by Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell, and Kardes (1986). This paradigm has received extensive attention in psychology and is used to investigate numerous phenomena ranging from prejudice to depression. The current review provides a meta-analysis of a quarter century of evaluative priming research: 73 studies yielding 125 independent effect sizes from 5,367 participants. Because judgments people make in evaluative priming paradigms can be used to tease apart underlying processes, this meta-analysis examined the impact of different judgments to test the classic encoding and response perspectives of evaluative priming. As expected, evidence for automatic evaluation was found, but the results did not exclusively support either of the classic perspectives. Results suggest that both encoding and response processes likely contribute to evaluative priming but are more nuanced than initially conceptualized by the classic perspectives. Additionally, there were a number of unexpected findings that influenced evaluative priming such as segmenting trials into discrete blocks. We argue that many of the findings of this meta-analysis can be explained with 2 recent evaluative priming perspectives: the attentional sensitization/feature-specific attention allocation and evaluation window perspectives

Cognitive psychology · Priming (agriculture) · Quarter (Canadian coin) · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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