Self-Prioritization Beyond Perception.
Recently, Sui, He, and Humphreys (2012) introduced a new paradigm to measure perceptual self-prioritization processes. It seems that arbitrarily tagging shapes to self-relevant words (I, my, me, and so on) leads to speeded verification times when matching self-relevant word shape pairings (e.g., me - triangle) as compared to non-self-relevant word shape pairings (e.g., stranger - circle). In order to analyze the level at which self-prioritization takes place we analyzed whether the self-prioritization effect is due to a tagging of the self-relevant label and the particular associated shape or due to a tagging of the self with an abstract concept. In two experiments participants showed standard self-prioritization effects with varying stimulus features or different exemplars of a particular stimulus-category suggesting that self-prioritization also works at a conceptual level.
1 University of Trier, Germany.
Sarah
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Schäfer
2 Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Dirk
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Wentura
1 University of Trier, Germany.
Christian
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Frings
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010465:Perception; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012201:Reward; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult
conceptual processing; feature variance; self-prioritization