On the Automatic Association Between America and Aggression for News Watchers

Ferguson, Melissa J.; Hassin, Ran R.

doi:10.1177/0146167207307493

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“…For instance, exposure to artifacts from the business world (briefcases, executive-style pens) induces individuals to play an economic game more competitively (Kay, Wheeler, Bargh, & Ross, 2004). Also, exposure to the American flag initiates aggressive behavioral tendencies among regular news watchers (Ferguson & Hassin, 2007). Such effects are thought to occur via the activation of concepts associated with the object.…”

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Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas

Slepian

Weisbuch

Rutchick

et al. 2010

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Previous research has characterized insight as the product of internal processes, and has thus investigated the cognitive and motivational processes that immediately precede it. In this research, however, we investigate whether insight can be catalyzed by a cultural artifact, an external object imbued with learned meaning. Specifically, we exposed participants to an illuminating lightbulb – an iconic image of insight – prior to or during insight problem-solving. Across four studies, exposing participants to an illuminating lightbulb primed concepts associated with achieving an insight, and enhanced insight problem-solving in three different domains (spatial, verbal, and mathematical), but did not enhance general (non-insight) problem-solving.

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Section: Shedding Light On Insight: Priming Bright Ideasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas

Slepian

Weisbuch

Rutchick

et al. 2010

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…Aggression, self-sufficiency, evaluation of others’ work, competitiveness, goal pursuit and creativity can all be swayed by objects in the environment [9]–[11], [20]–[24]. Additionally, framing can influence how painful stimuli are rated (e.g., work on placebo analgesia [25], [26], and framing and stimulus exposure can influence pain sensitivity [27]–[30].…”

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Handling Ibuprofen Increases Pain Tolerance and Decreases Perceived Pain Intensity in a Cold Pressor Test

Rutchick

Slepian

2013

PLoS ONE

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Pain contributes to health care costs, missed work and school, and lower quality of life. Extant research on psychological interventions for pain has focused primarily on developing skills that individuals can apply to manage their pain. Rather than examining internal factors that influence pain tolerance (e.g., pain management skills), the current work examines factors external to an individual that can increase pain tolerance. Specifically, the current study examined the nonconscious influence of exposure to meaningful objects on the perception of pain. Participants (N = 54) completed a cold pressor test, examined either ibuprofen or a control object, then completed another cold pressor test. In the second test, participants who previously examined ibuprofen reported experiencing less intense pain and tolerated immersion longer (relative to baseline) than those who examined the control object. Theoretical and applied implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…Flags are symbolic conceptual representations of group membership that can activate associations with their nation (Butz, Plant, & Doerr, 2007;Ferguson & Hassin, 2007; for a review, see Butz, 2009) In the current research, the hypothesis is tested that through the repeated use of the national color as a perceptual representation of a nation, the national color has acquired a psychologically meaningful association with the nation of individuals. Some preliminary research findings already suggest that people evaluate their national color more positively than the national colors of other countries.…”

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Orange as a perceptual representation of the Dutch nation: Effects on perceived national identification and color evaluation

Lakens¹

2017

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Although it is generally accepted that colors carry meaning, experimental research about individual, situational and cultural differences in the meaning of colors is scarce. The current research examines whether the Dutch national color functions as a perceptual representation of The Netherlands. A person dressed in orange clothing was judged to identify more with his nation compared to the same person dressed in blue (Study 1). When national identification was salient, such as during (vs. before/after) the European soccer championship, or when participants recalled an experience in which they identified (vs. not-identified) with The Netherlands, and people were more aware of the use of the color orange as a perceptual representation of The Netherlands, orange was evaluated more positively (Studies 2 and 3). Furthermore, orange evaluations correlated with self-reported national identification. These results support the hypothesis that national colors carry psychological meaning, which can influence person perception and color evaluations.

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On the Automatic Association Between America and Aggression for News Watchers

Cited by 43 publications

References 63 publications

Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas

Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas

Handling Ibuprofen Increases Pain Tolerance and Decreases Perceived Pain Intensity in a Cold Pressor Test

Orange as a perceptual representation of the Dutch nation: Effects on perceived national identification and color evaluation

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