The automatic and the expected self: Separating self- and familiarity biases effects by manipulating stimulus probability

Journal article

Attentional control over prepotent responses has previously been shown by manipulating the probability with which stimuli appear. Here, we examined whether prepotent responses to self-associated stimuli can be modulated by their frequency of occurrence. Participants were instructed to associate geometric shapes with the self, their mother, or a stranger before having to judge whether the sequential shape-label pairs matched or mismatched the instruction. The probability of the different shape...

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Authors: Sui, J; Sun, Y; Peng, K; Humphreys, G

• Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
• Journal: Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
• Volume: 76
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1176-1184
• Publication date: 2014-01-01
• DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0631-5
• EISSN: 1943-393X
• ISSN: 1943-3921
• Language: English
• Keywords: Matching task; Prepotent responses; Expectation; Probability; Self-tagging