Is conflict the root of all evil? An approach to clarify the effect of conflict priming on target valence

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Can conflict priming be used to induce a negative valence of an otherwise neutral target? Recent studies found evidence for such an influence. For example, a neutral target was judged as more negative if preceded by a conflicting Stroop prime (Fritz & Dreisbach, 2013). In a first experiment, we replicated this finding. Participants were primed with conflicting or non-conflicting Stroop stimuli and had to judge the valence of a neutral pictograph presented after the Stroop prime. We found evidence for a more negative evaluation of the neutral stimuli after conflict as compared to non-conflict. In a subsequent experiment, our participants classified the Stroop stimulus (as congruent versus incongruent) and immediately afterwards judged the neutral stimulus. Although we found a typical Stroop effect in the RTs, we found no influence of the Stroop congruence on the evaluation of neutral stimuli. In subsequent experiments, we clarified whether possible confounds in earlier studies, such as the frequency of the respective sensory signals, are capable of explaining the valence effects that were hitherto attributed to conflict priming.
Zeitraum2015
Ereignistitel57th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)
VeranstaltungstypKonferenz
OrtHildesheim, DeutschlandAuf Karte anzeigen