Loading working memory enhances affective priming

• Published in: Psychonomic bulletin & review Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 326 - 331
• Main Authors: ROTTEVEEL, Mark, PHAF, R. Hans
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Austin, TX Psychonomic Society 01.04.2004; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Affect; Affectivity. Emotion; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Consciousness; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Memory; Personality. Affectivity; Psychology of learning; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Visual Perception; Human; Affect affectivity; Priming effect; Cognition; Emotion emotionality; Working memory; Experimental study

Stronger affective priming (Murphy & Zajonc, 1993) with suboptimal (i.e., reduced consciousness) than with optimal (i.e., full consciousness) prime presentation suggests that nonconscious processes form an important part of emotions. Merikle and Joordens (1997) have argued that both impoverished...