title: On the replicability of the affective priming effect in the pronunciation task.
abstract: Bargh, Chaiken, Raymond, and Hymes (1996) and Hermans, De Houwer, and Eelen (1994) showed that a valenced target word is pronounced faster after the presentation of an affectively related prime word than after the presentation of an affectively unrelated prime word. This finding is important because it provides crucial evidence for the hypotheses that stimulus evaluation (a) is goal-independent and (b) facilitates the encoding of stimuli that have the same valence. However, recent studies indicate that the affective priming effect is not a reliable finding in the standard pronunciation task. We report the results of a nearly exact replication of Bargh et al.'s (1996) Experiment 2. In line with previous replication studies, we failed to detect the affective priming effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. Adriaan.Spruyt@psy.kuleuven.ac.be
authors.forename: Adriaan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spruyt
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hermans
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pandelaere
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: De Houwer
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Eelen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011897:Random Allocation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary