Shaking hands: priming by social action effects.

Journal article

In a semi-naturalistic response-effect compatibility paradigm, participants were given the opportunity to learn that hand-shaking actions would be followed by social effects (human hand-shaking stimuli from a third-person perspective) or inanimate effects (block arrow stimuli). Relative to the actions, these effects appeared on the same or the opposite side of the screen (positional compatibility), and pointed towards or away from the response hand (directional compatibility). After learning,...

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Authors: Flach, R; Press, C; Badets, A; Heyes, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953)
• Volume: 101
• Issue: Pt 4
• Pages: 739-749
• Publication date: 2010-11-01
• DOI: 10.1348/000712609x484595
• ISSN: 0007-1269
• Language: English
• Keywords: Movement; Adolescent; Cues; Male; Imitative Behavior; Humans; Photic Stimulation; Analysis of Variance; Female; Adult; Reaction Time; Social Behavior; Psychomotor Performance