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2021

Priming

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A Study Of How We Perceive People, Muriel Kosaka Jan 2021

A Study Of How We Perceive People, Muriel Kosaka

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In a now classic study, Srull and Wyer (1979) found that by priming participants with hostility related stimuli in a sentence unscrambling task caused subsequent judgment of a person (Donald) behaving ambiguously to be perceived as more hostile. As part of a larger, multi-lab collaborative study conducted by Randy McCarthy, the purpose of this study is to replicate the findings found in Srull and Wyer (1979) by focusing on two conditions that demonstrated a clear priming effect, the use of 30 sentences in the sentence unscrambling task and the immediate testing condition. Participants first completed a sentence unscrambling task, followed …


A Conceptual Replication To Investigate The Hostile Priming Effect, Charlotte Basch Jan 2021

A Conceptual Replication To Investigate The Hostile Priming Effect, Charlotte Basch

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The current study attempts a conceptual replication of Srull and Wyer’s 1979 study on hostile priming as part of a large-scale replication. The current study did not find that participants who were exposed to the hostile phrases rated the individual as more hostile as the original study did.