Response priming refers to the phenomenon where an initial, often subliminal, stimulus (the prime) modulates the speed and accuracy of responses to a subsequent stimulus (the target). This modulation ...

According to Glasgow and HSE/Northumbria researchers, repetition of non-verbs as well as verbs can boost the effect of syntactic priming, i.e. the likelihood of people reproducing the structure of the ...

Social priming is the field of research about how thinking about or interacting with something (like warm coffee, or old age) can affect later, vaguely related behaviour. (Rolf Zwaan has a useful ...