Robust affective priming effects in a conditional pronunciation task: Evidence for the semantic representation of evaluative information

Houwer, Jan De; Randell, Tom

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“…The finding of significant priming effects with the pronunciation task thus establishes a specific influence of facilitated target access processes on priming effects. Robust priming effects with the pronunciation task have repeatedly been demonstrated for associative prime-target pairs (e.g., Meyer et al, 1975; see Neely, 1991, for a review), whereas for categorically related prime-target pairs (e.g., affective priming), highly inconsistent results have been reported, including congruency, incongruency, Cognitive Processes in Categorical and Associative Priming 8 as well as null effects (e.g., Bargh et al, 1996;De Houwer & Randell, 2004;Glaser & Banaji, 1999;Hermans, De Houwer, & Eelen, 1994; Klauer & Musch, 2001; Schmitz & Wentura, in press;Spruyt, De Houwer, & Hermans, 2009; Spruyt, Hermans, De Houwer, & Eelen, 2002;Spruyt, Hermans, Pandelaere, De Houwer, & Eelen, 2004;Spruyt, Hermans, De Houwer, Vandromme, & Eelen, 2007;Wentura & Frings, 2008; see Klauer & Musch, 2003, andRothermund, 2003, for reviews).Similarly, using a categorization task that is unrelated to the dimension for which category congruency effects are investigated (e.g., an animacy categorization task is used when testing for affective category priming) should eliminate response competition as a potential explanation of categorical priming effects (but see Schmitz & Wentura, in press).Moreover, since post-lexical mechanisms are most plausible for the lexical decision task (see above) this strategy should also eliminate post-lexical mechanisms. Categorical priming effects are typically eliminated in designs in which the task is to categorize the targets according to another dimension (e.g., De Houwer et al, 2002;Klinger et al, 2000; Klauer & Musch, 2002; but see Spruyt, De Houwer, Hermans, & Eelen, 2007; Schmitz & Wentura, in press).…”

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Cognitive processes in associative and categorical priming: A diffusion model analysis.

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Gast³

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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A Diffusion Model AnalysisSequential priming procedures play a major role in Cognitive Psychology and related disciplines. For example, priming techniques are used to assess associative structures in semantic memory (e.g., Collins & Loftus, 1975;Neely, 1977;Rosch, 1975), to analyze subliminal semantic processing (e.g., Draine & Greenwald, 1998;Klinger, Burton, & Pitts, 2000;Marcel, 1983), or to investigate the mental basis of attitudes, prejudice, and stereotyping (Blair & Banaji, 1996;Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell, & Kardes, 1986; Wittenbrink, Judd, & Park, 1997, 2001a. With different sequential priming paradigms it has been shown that the processing of an irrelevant prime stimulus influences the processing ofor the responding to-a subsequently presented target stimulus. Typically, responses are faster and more accurate if prime and target are related.Despite these similarities, there are also important differences between paradigms.First, relatedness of prime and target can be based on many dimensions, including semantic relatedness, associations, similarity, and others. We are primarily interested here in associative and semantic relations between prime and target. Items are semantically related when they belong to the same category and thus share semantic properties (e.g., cat and cow are mammals) or when they are functionally related (e.g., broom and floor are related because brooms are used to sweep floors). Items are considered to be associated when a large percentage of people give the target as the first word they think of in response to the prime (see Moss, Ostrin, Tyler, & Marslen-Wilson, 1995, for an elaborate discussion of the distinction between semantic and associative priming). In addition to the relatedness dimension, priming paradigms differ in the type of task that is to be performed on the targets:Most paradigms use the lexical decision task (Meyer & Schvaneveldt, 1971;Neely, 1977; see also Gaertner & McLaughlin, 1983;Wentura, 2000; Wittenbrink et al., 1997 Wittenbrink et al., , 2001a & Hymes, 1996;Hermans, De Houwer, & Eelen, 1994), semantic or affective categorization tasks (e.g., De Houwer, Hermans, Rothermund, & Wentura, 2002;Fazio et al., 1986;Klinger et al., 2000), and verification tasks (Collins & Quillian, 1969;Meyer, 1970; see also Dovidio, Evans, & Tyler, 1986). A structural taxonomyIn this regard it is helpful to introduce a structural taxonomy of priming designs that distinguishes between semantic priming and response priming (see also Wentura & Degner, 2010). In semantic priming, the relationship of interest (e.g., whether prime and target are associatively related or not) is varied orthogonally to the response categories: For example, in a semantic priming design using the lexical decision task, targets that are preceded by associatively related primes as well as targets that are preceded by unrelated primes require a word-response. By way of contrast, in response priming designs, primes are at the same time congruent or incongruent to the target and to the response that ha...

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Cognitive processes in associative and categorical priming: A diffusion model analysis.

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“…Spreading activation in semantic memory (Collins & Loftus, 1975;DeCoster & Claypool, 2004;De Houwer & Randell, 2004;Ross & Bower, 1981) strictly predicts congruity. It is hardly possible to invent an associative network architecture that predicts incongruity.…”

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On the adaptive flexibility of evaluative priming

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If priming effects serve an adaptive function, they have to be both robust and flexible. In four experiments, we demonstrated regular evaluative-priming effects for relatively long stimulus-onset asynchronies, which can, however, be eliminated or reversed strategically. When participants responded to both primes and targets, rather than only to targets, the standard congruity effect disappeared. In Experiments 1a-1c, this result was regularly obtained, independently of the prime response (valence or gender classification) and the response mode (pronunciation or keystroke). In Experiment 2, we showed that once the default congruity effect was eliminated, strategicpriming effects reflected the statistical contingency between prime valence and target valence. Positive contingencies produced congruity, whereas negative contingencies produced equally strong incongruity effects. Altogether, these findings are consistent with an adaptive-cognitive perspective, which highlights the role of flexible strategic processes in working memory as opposed to fixed structures in semantic long-term memory or in the sensorimotor system.

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“…However, they are more easily remembered and recognized in both immediate (e.g., Hadley & MacKay, 2006;Monnier & Syssau, 2008) and delayed (e.g., Doerksen & Shimamura, 2001;Ferré, 2003) memory tests. Moreover, distinct psycholinguistic tasks, such as lexical decision (e.g., Carretié et al, 2008;Hofmann, Kuchinke, Tamm, Võ, & Jacobs, 2009;Wentura, 2000), pronunciation (e.g., de Houwer & Randell, 2004;Spruyt, Hermans, de Houwer, Vandromme, & Eelen, 2007), and evaluative categorization (e.g., de Houwer, Hermans, Rothermund, & Wentura, 2002;Gibbons, 2009;Hermans, de Houwer, & Eelen, 2001;Spruyt et al, 2007;Wentura & Degner, 2010), have shown that positive and negative words elicit lower reaction times and higher accuracy rates than do neutral words. Emotional words have also been shown to induce affective priming in both masked (e.g., Gibbons, 2009;Wentura & Degner, 2010) and unmasked (e.g., Hermans et al, 2001;Spruyt et al, 2007) designs.…”

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The adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) for European Portuguese

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This study presents the adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW; Bradley & Lang, 1999a) for European Portuguese (EP). The EP adaptation of the ANEW was based on the affective ratings made by 958 college students who were EP native speakers. Subjects assessed about 60 words by considering the affective dimensions of valence, arousal, and dominance, using the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) in either a paper-and-pencil or a Web survey procedure. Results of the adaptation of the ANEW for EP are presented. Furthermore, the differences between EP, American (Bradley & Lang, 1999a), and Spanish (Redondo, Fraga, Padrón, & Comesaña, Behavior Research Methods, 39, 600-605, 2007) standardizations were explored. Results showed that the ANEW words were understood in a similar way by EP, American, and Spanish subjects, although some sex and cross-cultural differences were observed. The EP adaptation of the ANEW is shown to be a valid and useful tool that will allow researchers to control and/or manipulate the affective properties of stimuli, as well as to develop cross-linguistic studies. The normative values of EP adaptation of the ANEW can be downloaded at http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.

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Robust affective priming effects in a conditional pronunciation task: Evidence for the semantic representation of evaluative information

Cited by 69 publications

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Cognitive processes in associative and categorical priming: A diffusion model analysis.

Cognitive processes in associative and categorical priming: A diffusion model analysis.

On the adaptive flexibility of evaluative priming

The adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) for European Portuguese

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