Even people who think about their health when it comes to diet and regularly adhere to recommended guidelines know that the smell and appearance of something that is “bad” for us, like french fries, ...

Sequential priming measures of implicit social cognition: A meta-analysis of associations with behavior and explicit attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Review (published online 5 April 2012) ...

The popular notion of subliminal information is that it streams into an unguarded mind, unchecked and unprocessed. However, neurobiologists' experiments are now revealing that the brain does ...

Subliminal messaging – we’ve all heard about it. But it doesn’t really work, right? New research from Valentin Dragoi’s lab at the University of Texas at Houston suggests that subliminal images can ...

How is it possible that you were not planning on going shopping, but that you still end up going and even return home with four new shirts? Apparently you really did want to go shopping but were not ...

Pick a card, any card. It’s a staple of traditional magic tricks. But if you choose the three of diamonds, chances are you may have been “primed” by the magician to pick that card without even being ...

What follows is a response to a recent article in ScienceNews on the replicability of priming effects in social psychology. [Also relevant is a new article in Nature online by Ed Yong concerning the ...