Top-down modulation impairs priming susceptibility in complex decision-making with social implications.

ABSTRACT: Could social context variables prime complex decisions? Could top-down processes impair this priming susceptibility? Complex decisions have been mainly studied from economic and moral perspectives, and Dual Process Theories provide evidence of how these processes could be affected. To address these issues from a political perspective, online experiments were conducted. Participants (n = 252) were asked to choose a face from 4 options, each associated with different frequencies (repetition priming) or with phrases with different emotional valence (emotional priming), for an unspecified task (UST group) or an important task (IMT group). The most repeated face was chosen most in the UST group, and was associated with lower response times. Positive faces were equally chosen by both groups. To

SUBMITTER: Bernal FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9595095 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature