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Priming

  

People are influenced by their immediate environment, which includes the objects, situations, and persons they encounter. Indeed, features of the environment can affect psychological experiences and behaviors so subtly that people fail to notice these influences. Priming refers to an unobtrusive and momentary environmental influence on an individual’s psychological experiences and behaviors. The term priming has also been used to describe the experimental technique researchers use to study these … [Read more...] about Priming

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Article (Journal): Evaluative Priming (2016)

  

Evaluative Priming [1. Joop van der Pligt & Michael Vliek, The Psychology of Influence: Theory, research and practice (Routledge 2016).] Implicit measures of attitudes have been developed since the 1980s, and applied in research on such themes as stereotypes and prejudice (for example, Wittenbrink, Judd & Park, 1997) and health behaviour (Wiers, van Woerden, Smulders & de Jong, 2002; see also Petty, Fazio & Brifiol, 2009; De Houwer & De Bruycker, 2007). Their underlying … [Read more...] about Article (Journal): Evaluative Priming (2016)

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Definition: Attitude

  

An attitude describes an evaluative response — positive or negative — to a person, a situation, a product, an idea or an organisation. [...] Attitudes have cognitive, affective and behavioural components. As an example, take the attitude induced by a television programme. The cognitive component reflects what a viewer thinks of the show (`good production values', for example, or 'good acting'). The affective aspect concerns the feelings it arouses (`it entertained me', 'I laughed a lot'). And … [Read more...] about Definition: Attitude

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Book: Attitude Object

  

If we want to know how people are influenced, we first need to ask what exactly we want that influence to achieve. In other words, what is its objective? Usually, the answer is: to change behaviour. But that is often easier said than done. In most cases, after all, we cannot be forced to act in a particular way. That is why influence attempts often focus on modifying our attitudes in the hope that that will eventually alter our behaviour. Advertisers, for instance, try to influence our attitudes … [Read more...] about Book: Attitude Object

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Indie (Independent) Scientologist

  

We are a group of Scientologists, Clears and OTs, who are simply working to achieve the aims of Scientology as per LRH. Independent Scientologists are Scientologists who recognize that the current Church of Scientology management is out-ethics, out-tech and off policy and is thus losing the technology of Dianetics and Scientology. Indie Scientologists have declared Independence from the Church of Scientology and wish to freely practice our faith without harassment. We are not here to … [Read more...] about Indie (Independent) Scientologist