On the automatic link between affect and tendencies to approach and avoid: Chen and Bargh (1999) revisited.

ABSTRACT: Within the literature on emotion and behavioral action, studies on approach-avoidance take up a prominent place. Several experimental paradigms feature successful conceptual replications but many original studies have not yet been replicated directly. We present such a direct replication attempt of two seminal experiments originally conducted by Chen and Bargh (1999). In their first experiment, participants affectively evaluated attitude objects by pulling or pushing a lever. Participants who had to pull the lever with positively valenced attitude objects and push the lever with negatively valenced attitude objects (i.e., congruent instruction) did so faster than participants who had to follow the reverse (i.e., incongruent) instruction. In Chen and Bargh's second experiment, the explicit

SUBMITTER: Rotteveel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4382967 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature