>I'm somewhat confused by this. The Zajonc "Turkish" experiment I
>know is a pseudo-subliminal experiment, where the subjects are
>led to believe they're taking part in a subliminal perception
>experiment, but aren't. In the experiment, the subjects are told
>that words will be flashed on a screen, but nothing is (typical
>social psychologist deviousness). The point is to study
>predictions from the Hull-Spence model relating to social
>facilitation effects.
>
>Is there another Zajonc experiment where he really does it?
Yeah, the:
Murphy, S. T., & Zajonc, R. B. (1993). Affect, cognition, and
awareness: Affective priming with optimal and suboptimal stimulus
exposures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 723-739.
It used Chinese characters as the neutral stimulus affected by a face
(happy or angry) presented either too quickly for awareness, or slow
enough for subjects to be aware. Subjects aware of the face were not
affected (their judgment of the Chinese ideograph did not exhibit
influence from the mood presented by the face). Those unaware of the
face showed effects of the face's mood in their judgment of the
ideographs.
--> Mike O.
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