University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2012 Nov;16(4):330-50. doi: 10.1177/1088868312440047. Epub 2012 Apr 5.
In a comprehensive meta-analysis of 167 studies, the authors found that sequential priming tasks were significantly associated with behavioral measures (r = .28) and with explicit attitude measures (r = .20). Priming tasks continued to predict behavior after controlling for the effects of explicit attitudes. These results generalized across a variety of study domains and methodological variations. Within-study moderator analyses revealed that priming tasks have good specificity, only predicting behavior and explicit measures under theoretically expected conditions. Together, these results indicate that sequential priming-one of the earliest methods of investigating implicit social cognition--continues to be a valid tool for the psychological scientist.
在对 167 项研究的综合元分析中，作者发现，连续启动任务与行为测量显著相关（r =.28），与外显态度测量显著相关（r =.20）。在控制外显态度的影响后，启动任务仍然可以预测行为。这些结果在各种研究领域和方法学变化中具有普遍性。研究内的调节分析表明，启动任务具有良好的特异性，仅在理论预期条件下预测行为和外显测量。总之，这些结果表明，连续启动——一种最早用于研究内隐社会认知的方法之一——仍然是心理科学家的有效工具。
