What have we been priming all these years? On the development, mechanisms, and ecology of nonconscious social behavior Export

@article{citeulike:6089433, abstract = {Priming or nonconscious activation of social knowledge structures has produced a plethora of rather amazing findings over the past 25 years: priming a single social concept such as aggressive can have multiple effects across a wide array of psychological systems, such as perception, motivation, behavior, and evaluation. But we may have reached childhood's end, so to speak, and need now to move on to research questions such as how these multiple effects of single primes occur (the generation problem); next, how these multiple simultaneous priming influences in the environment get distilled into nonconscious social action that has to happen serially, in real time (the reduction problem). It is suggested that models of complex conceptual structures (Lakoff \& Johnson, ), language use in real-life conversational settings (Clark, ), and speech production (Dell, ) might hold the key for solving these two important lsquosecond-generationrsquo research problems. Copyright {\copyright} 2006 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.}, address = {Yale University, USA}, author = {Bargh, John A.}, citeulike-article-id = {6089433}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.336}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112470634/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/ejsp.336}, issn = {1099-0992}, journal = {European Journal of Social Psychology}, keywords = {priming, social\_psychology}, number = {2}, pages = {147--168}, posted-at = {2009-11-09 17:33:03}, priority = {2}, title = {What have we been priming all these years? On the development, mechanisms, and ecology of nonconscious social behavior}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.336}, volume = {36}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6089433 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6089433 N2 - Priming or nonconscious activation of social knowledge structures has produced a plethora of rather amazing findings over the past 25 years: priming a single social concept such as aggressive can have multiple effects across a wide array of psychological systems, such as perception, motivation, behavior, and evaluation. But we may have reached childhood's end, so to speak, and need now to move on to research questions such as how these multiple effects of single primes occur (the generation problem); next, how these multiple simultaneous priming influences in the environment get distilled into nonconscious social action that has to happen serially, in real time (the reduction problem). It is suggested that models of complex conceptual structures (Lakoff & Johnson, ), language use in real-life conversational settings (Clark, ), and speech production (Dell, ) might hold the key for solving these two important lsquosecond-generationrsquo research problems. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. IS - 2 JF - European Journal of Social Psychology SN - 1099-0992 AD - Yale University, USA EP - 168 TI - What have we been priming all these years? On the development, mechanisms, and ecology of nonconscious social behavior VL - 36 SP - 147 KW - priming KW - social_psychology AU - Bargh, John PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.336 ER -