Several theoretical views of automaticity are discussed. Most of these suggest that
automaticity should be diagnosed by looking at the presence of features such as …

In a size judgment task on words denoting concrete objects, subliminally presented stimuli
that preceded the targets influenced response times and were dependent on whether …

Environmental events directly and automatically activate three interactive but distinct
psychological systems, responsible, respectively, for perceptual, evaluative, and …

The authors theorize that 2 neurocognitive sequence-learning systems can be distinguished
in serial reaction time experiments, one dorsal (parietal and supplementary motor cortex) …

Guide to Sequential Priming 3 denoting a social category and targets denoting presumed
stereotypic traits (eg, Wittenbrink, Judd, & Park, 1997). Congruency effects in the …

The affective connotations of environmental stimuli are evaluated spontaneously and with
minimal cognitive processing. The activated evaluations influence subsequent emotional …

In unconscious semantic priming, an unidentifiable visually masked word (the prime)
facilitates semantic classification of a following visible related word (the target). Three …

Drawing on decades of research suggesting an attentional advantage for self‐related
information, researchers generally assume that self‐related stimuli automatically capture …

The study of implicit perception—perception in the absence of awareness—has a long
history. Decades of behavioural work have identified crucial theoretical and methodological …

Unconscious perceptual effects remain controversial because it is hard to rule out alternative
conscious perception explanations for them. We present a novel methodological framework …