Dr. Bargh's ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion) lab researchers nonconscious or automatic influences on psychological and behavioral processes.
Talk title: From the Physical to the Psychological: On the Reliability of Social (Behavioral) Priming Effects
Abstract: Recent theory and evidence regarding the nonconscious (priming) effect of physical experience on more abstract psychological-social higher mental processes are described with an eye towards their relevance to three issues raised by skeptics of such effects: their counterintuitive nature, their replicability, and their real world relevance. Replications in applied and field (real world) settings and by recent neuroscience studies will be part of the review and discussion.
