Masked affective priming by name letters: Evidence for a correspondence of explicit and implicit self-esteem |
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Authors: | Dirk Wentura Michael Kulfanek |
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Institution: | a Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany b University of Münster, Germany c University of Hildesheim, Germany |
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Abstract: | In an affective priming experiment (N = 60), participants’ initials were used as masked primes. We found a significant priming effect (denoting positivity of the personal initials) if personal initials (compared to yoked participants’ initials) were followed by other-relevant positive or negative targets (e.g., honest, cruel). For possessor-relevant targets (e.g., healthy, lonely), there was no main effect of priming. However, this priming index positively correlated with explicit self-esteem. For participants with high self esteem, a positive effect was found, whereas for participants with low self-esteem, a negative effect was found. |
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Keywords: | Self-concept semantic priming adaptation |
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