Automatic processing of dominance and submissiveness |
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Authors: | Moors Agnes De Houwer Jan |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. agnes.moors@ugent.ac.be |
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Abstract: | We investigated whether people are able to detect in a relatively automatic manner the dominant or submissive status of persons engaged in social interactions. We used a nonaffective variant of the affective Simon paradigm of De Houwer and Eelen (1998) in which participants responded by saying either "dominant" or "submissive" depending on the right or left spatial position of a target person who was engaged as either the dominant or the submissive agent in a social interaction. We observed that responses were facilitated when the status connotation of the target person and the correct response corresponded. These results provide new information about the automatic nature of information related to emotion-antecedent appraisals. |
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