Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Mental Processes

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Adults and children implicitly associate brilliance with men more than women (2020, background): “…with implicit attitudes being more consistent across demographic groups (e.g., both old and young people prefer young people on implicit measures; Nosek et al., 2007); (2) their ability to predict behaviors, with implicit stereotypes being more likely to predict spontaneous behaviors (Kurdi,…”
Affective Contagion in Effortful Political Thinking (2014, methodology): “To guarantee that any influence of the affective primes was truly unconscious, we employed a subliminal priming paradigm (Bargh, 2007) in which participants could not consciously see the primes.”
No sign of quitting: incidental exposure to “no smoking” signs ironically boosts cigarette-approach tendencies in smokers (2013, unknown): “Indeed, the power of cues and primes in the environment to trigger automatic cueconsistent behavioral responses is now well established (see Dijksterhuis et al., 2007, for a review).”
Moral Symbols: A Necklace of Garlic against Unethical Requests (2017, background): “Research has shown that when symbols and concepts are closely associated, on being exposed to the symbol, the related concept automatically becomes more accessible to the mind (see Bargh, 1994, 2007).”