Mental Modes: Priming of Expertise-Based Dispositions in Expertise-Unrelated Contexts

• Lindsay R. L. Larson ^[1] ; Ezequiel Morsella ^[2] ; John A. Bargh ^[3]
  1. [1] Georgia Southern University

     Georgia Southern University

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] San Francisco State University

     San Francisco State University

     Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] Yale University

     Yale University

     Town of New Haven, Estados Unidos

     

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• Localización: Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental, ISSN-e 1576-8597, ISSN 0211-2159, Vol. 33, Nº 2, 2012, págs. 305-317
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Why does the general demeanor of others change as soon as they begin to ‘talk shop’ or do something else that puts them into ‘work-mode’? We propose that such phenomena reflect an instance of incidental priming in which environmental cues activate actional ‘sets’ formed through extensive training in a particular domain (e.g., music). Accordingly, we demonstrated that, by activating a ‘musician set,’ incidental musically-related stimuli prime musicians to spend more time on a domain-irrelevant task rehearsing nonsense words as compared to controls or non-primed musicians, as this set should involve a tendency towards deliberative practice. This finding provides additional evidence for a central tenet of social cognition research—that the mere presence of ambient stimuli influences behavioral dispositions systematically, in ways that often escape one’s awareness.