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 ...

“Social priming” has been the punching-bag of psychology for the past few years. The term “social priming” refers to the idea that subtle cues can exert large, unconscious influences on human ...

One of the more common words you'll come across in the psychological literature is priming, which is defined as an instance where exposure to one stimulus influences the reaction to a subsequent one.

When subjects are shown words or objects during a training phase, and are then asked to perform a task that involves, for example, generating words from word stems or making a judgement about objects, ...

Merriam-Webster is continuing its tour of President Donald Trump’s word usage. Their latest effort to correct the President with facts involves the key phrase: “priming the pump.” In an interview with ...

Christopher Latella receives funding from the National Strength and Conditioning Foundation Krissy Kendall receives funding from National Strength and Conditioning Foundation As humans, it is in our ...