What follows is a response to a recent article in ScienceNews on the replicability of priming effects in social psychology. [Also relevant is a new article in Nature online by Ed Yong concerning the ...
Response priming refers to the phenomenon where an initial, often subliminal, stimulus (the prime) modulates the speed and accuracy of responses to a subsequent stimulus (the target). This modulation ...
Social priming is the field of research about how thinking about or interacting with something (like warm coffee, or old age) can affect later, vaguely related behaviour. (Rolf Zwaan has a useful ...
A key uncertainty in climate projections is the amount of carbon emitted by thawing permafrost in the Arctic. Plant roots in soil stimulate microbial decomposition, a mechanism called the priming ...
This finals season, a brief ‘priming’ workout could boost performance on the sports field and beyond
As humans, it is in our nature to want to do better, find that edge and succeed. This couldn’t be truer than in sport, where winning and losing are often separated by tenths of a second, a successful ...
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