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Effects 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 affect 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 first person singular pronouns, and lower feelings of authorship when primed with “computer.” We also investigated whether authorship feelings could be affected by priming subjects with a supernatural agent (i.e., God). Feelings of authorship decreased when participants were primed with God, but only among believers.

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

Urheber*in: Dijksterhuis, Ap; Preston, Jesse; Wegner, Daniel M.; Aarts, Henk

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Extent
Seite(n): 2-9
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(1)

Subject
Psychologie
Sozialpsychologie
Attribution

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Dijksterhuis, Ap
Preston, Jesse
Wegner, Daniel M.
Aarts, Henk
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
(when)
2007

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-207390
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  • Dijksterhuis, Ap
  • Preston, Jesse
  • Wegner, Daniel M.
  • Aarts, Henk

Time of origin

  • 2007

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