Context Effects in Social and Psychological Research

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The relative difficulty of resolving motivational conflicts is affective context-dependent.

“…Context dependency is one of the most basic principles in psychological research (Schwarz & Sudman, 1992). From low-level perception (Ginsburg, 1975; Lappin et al, 2006; Philbeck et al, 2018), through high-level cognitive processing (Barrett et al, 2011; Hupbach et al, 2008; Rigoli et al, 2016), to social cognition (Bless et al, 2003; Wyer & Srull, 1986), psychological processes and outcomes are context-dependent.…”

Proximity of Items Does Not Necessarily Affect Their Correlation

“…The proximity of items has been hypothesized to greatly influence questionnaire answers (see Schwarz & Sudman, 1992). It is assumed that the salience of the original information in working memory decreases with time elapsed and new stimuli presented.…”

Quantum Cognitive Triad: Semantic Geometry of Context Representation

“…In case of objective uncertainty, probabilities with which possible alternatives may actualize in the potential experiment depend on a particular complex of experimental conditions -a context -which can be chosen in a variety of ways. This sensitivity called contextuality (situatedness, embeddedness) [80,52,83,138] is ubiquitous in human cognition and behavior [128,113,129,130,7].…”