The effects of priming on the self‐reporting of perceived stressors and strains

The influence of priming and pre‐existing knowledge of chemotherapy‐associated cognitive complaints on the reporting of such complaints in breast cancer patients

“…Priming effects become stronger with repeated exposure, and complaint reporting can thus increase with media publicity, information provided by cancer societies, or other sources of external information [11]. Researchers studying the cognitive impairment following treatment, should strike Chemotherapy-associated cognitive complaints a delicate balance between providing accurate information and finding ways to overcome or avoid priming of cognitive complaints.…”

“…For example, individuals who are primed that a stimulus will either increase or decrease skin temperature, subsequently report the suggested skin temperature changes at that moment. Likewise, a person who has suffered a heart attack may chronically monitor bodily sensations and overinterpret them as cardiovascular [10][11][12].…”

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Organizational Diagnosis

“…Priming refers to the mechanism by which an attitude is created or influenced by a preceding question or questions (Moss & Lawrence, 1997). Priming is a context effect described as a subconscious form of human memory that is based on the idea that an individual's subconscious is triggered by whatever information is available at the time (Tulving & Schacter, 1990).…”

“…This triggering can occur as a result of new information or prompted recall of prior knowledge (Head et al, 1988). Priming is said to occur when aspects of a situation are made to appear more salient to an individual than they might be otherwise (Moss & Lawrence, 1997;Schuman & Presser, 1981). Wyer and Hartwick (1978) found that when responding to a stimulus such as a questionnaire item, an individual will use whatever information is available at the moment.…”

The Effects of Temporal Separation on the Relations between Self-Reported Work Stressors and Strains

“…A number of studies employing temporal separation of stressors and strains were identified. However, some of these studies reported only aggregated correlations (Abramis, 1994;Stewart & Barling, 1996), only cross-sectional correlations (Schaubroeck, Ganster, Sime, & Ditman, 1993), only correlations of measures gathered after an intervention (Moss & Lawrence, 1997), or only correlations of stressors gathered at time 2 with strains gathered at time 1 (Spector, Chen, & O'Connell, 2000). Nevertheless, two studies were deemed to have comparable crosssectional and longitudinal correlations that could shed light on the focal issue (Agho, Mueller, & Price, 1993;Moyle, 1998).…”