| Abstract: | "In an attempt to test propositions about the interaction of schemata, three stimuli, incidental to the stimulus to be rated, were paired with three supraliminal faces in a partly balanced design. Twenty-three subjects rated the stimuli and faces initially on an Osgood Semantic Differential. In a second session, several months later, they rated each face again, preceded by one of the objects below the level of focal awareness. It was predicted that the object and face schemata aroused by the first rating would be reactivated, and would interact in a predictable way to produce a new rating of the face. For two of the three types of objects, ratings of the face following the negative and control incidental stimuli moved in the direction of the object rating, in support of the hypothesis. The findings were discussed in terms of a theory of incidental schemata that influence ongoing cognition." From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4CM11S. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
