title: The influence of vertical motor responses on explicit and incidental processing of power words.
abstract: There is increasing evidence demonstrating that power judgment is affected by vertical information. Such interaction between vertical space and power (i.e., response facilitation under space-power congruent conditions) is generally elicited in paradigms that require participants to explicitly evaluate the power of the presented words. The current research explored the possibility that explicit evaluative processing is not a prerequisite for the emergence of this effect. Here we compared the influence of vertical information on a standard explicit power evaluation task with influence on a task that linked power with stimuli in a more incidental manner, requiring participants to report whether the words represented people or animals or the font of the words. The results revealed that although the effect is more modest, the interaction between responses and power is also evident in an incidental task. Furthermore, we also found that explicit semantic processing is a prerequisite to ensure such an effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Handan Road 220, Shanghai SH 200433, China.
authors.forename: Tianjiao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Road 3663, Shanghai SH 200062, China.
authors.forename: Lining
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Handan Road 220, Shanghai SH 200433, China. Electronic address: judy1981_81@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012660:Semantics; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Explicit; Explicit semantic processing; Incidental; Power word; Vertical motor response