“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 ...

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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 ...

One of the more common words you'll come across in the psychological literature is priming, which is defined as an instance where exposure to one stimulus influences the reaction to a subsequent one.