From primed concepts to action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral effects of incidentally presented words.

ABSTRACT: A meta-analysis assessed the behavioral impact of and psychological processes associated with presenting words connected to an action or a goal representation. The average and distribution of 352 effect sizes (analyzed using fixed-effects and random-effects models) was obtained from 133 studies (84 reports) in which word primes were incidentally presented to participants, with a nonopposite control group, before measuring a behavioral dependent variable. Findings revealed a small behavioral priming effect (dFE = 0.332, dRE = 0.352), which was robust across methodological procedures and only minimally biased by the publication of positive (vs. negative) results. Theory testing analyses indicated that more valued behavior or goal concepts (e.g., associated with important outcomes or values)

SUBMITTER: Weingarten E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5783538 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature