Effects of Subliminal Priming of Self and God on Self-Attribution of Authorship for Events

EVects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events

Three studies investigated how subliminally primed thoughts of an agent prior to action can aVect ascriptions of authorship for that action. Participants competed against a computer program to remove words from a computer screen. Participants reported greater feelings of authorship when primed with Wrst person singular pronouns, and lower feelings of authorship when primed with “computer.” We a...

On the feeling of doing: dysphoria and the implicit modulation of authorship ascription.

The experience of authorship arises when we feel that observed effects (e.g., the onset of a light) are caused by our own actions (e.g., pushing a switch). This study tested whether dysphoric persons' authorship ascription can be modulated implicitly in a situation in which the exclusivity of the cause of effects is ambiguous. In line with the idea that depressed individuals' self-schemata incl...

The Effectiveness of Verbal Self-Instruction Method on Pessimistic Attribution Style about Negative Events in Children with Dyslexia

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of verbal self-Instruction on pessimistic attribution style about negative events in children with dyslexia. Methods: The study was experimental with pre-test-post-test and control group. The statistical population consists of all dyslexic students of Maktab Ali School in Tehran City. Forty students were selected by conve...

The nonconscious road to perceptions of performance: Achievement priming augments outcome expectancies and experienced self-agency

0022-1031/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.07.013 * Corresponding authors. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (R. Custers), h.aa Three experiments explored the effects of priming the achievement concept on the expectation of performance outcomes and experiences of self-agency over outcomes in a task in which performance outcomes were dependent on chance. Experiment...

When gift-giving produces dissonance: Effects of subliminal affiliation priming on choices for one's self versus close others