“Social priming” has been the punching-bag of psychology for the past few years. The term “social priming” refers to the idea that subtle cues can exert large, unconscious influences on human ...

When subjects are shown words or objects during a training phase, and are then asked to perform a task that involves, for example, generating words from word stems or making a judgement about objects, ...

Three years ago, a team of psychologists challenged 180 students with a spatial puzzle. The students could ask for a hint if they got stuck. But before the test, the researchers introduced some subtle ...

We examined priming of orthographically illegal nonwords in a perceptual identification task and a word judgment task in undergraduate participants. In perceptual identification, priming was ...

Just as surfaces accept a new coat of paint more easily once they have been primed, our brains behave in much the same way when pre-exposed to certain cues. For example, seeing priming words that ...

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An eight-year stretch of intense research by psychologist Daryl Bem of Cornell University has produced results that suggest humans are capable of precognition, meaning we can see into the future. How?