title: Evaluative Priming in the Pronunciation Task.
abstract: We replicated and extended a study by Spruyt and Hermans (2008) in which picture primes engendered an evaluative-priming effect on the pronunciation of target words. As preliminary steps, we assessed data reproducibility of the original study, conducted Pilot Study I to identify highly semantically related prime-target pairs, reanalyzed the original data excluding such pairs, conducted Pilot Study II to demonstrate that we can replicate traditional associative priming effects in the pronunciation task, and conducted Pilot Study III to generate relatively unrelated sets of prime pictures and target words. The main study comprised three between-participants conditions: (1) a close replication of the original study, (2) the same condition excluding highly related prime-target pairs, and (3) a condition based on the relatively unrelated sets of prime pictures and target words developed in Pilot Study III. There was little evidence for an evaluative priming effect independent of semantic relatedness.
authors.affiliation: 1 Institut für Psychologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Karl Christoph
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Klauer
authors.affiliation: 1 Institut für Psychologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.
authors.forename: Adriaan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spruyt
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D060865:Repetition Priming; D012107:Research Design; D013060:Speech; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: affective priming; evaluative priming; pronunciation task; replicability