Turn-frogs and careful-sweaters: Non-conscious perception of incongruous word pairings provokes fluid compensation

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The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making (2012, methodology): “Notably, this compensatory affirmation is of the same kind and degree as what follows from a reminder of one’s mortality, an absurd joke (Proulx et al., 2010), or subliminally presented nonsense word pairs (Randles et al., 2011).”
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