Identifying and harnessing habit: automaticity and priming

Studying the Mind in the Middle: A Practical Guide to Priming and Automaticity Research
John A. Bargh and Tanya L. Chartrand
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. . . priming how recent or current experience Passively (without an intervening act of will) creates internal readinesses.
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Priming and automaticity research have a common purpose: to explore the effects of individual differences in accessibility of mental representations on perception, evaluation, motivation, and behaviour. However, while priming research centers on the temporary activation of an indvidual’s mental representatation by the environment and the effect of this activation on various psychological phenomena, automaticity research focuses on more permanent, “hard-wired sources of activation, that is chronic accessibility of social knowledge structures.
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. . . automatic processing . . . various types of processing that are considered not conscious . . .
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Anthony Olszewski has written on a wide variety of topics: cage birds, tropical fish, popular culture, the poetry of Amiri Baraka and a chapter on genetics for a veterinary text book, as a small sample. He worked as an editor at a magazine produced by TFH, the world's largest publisher of pet books. Anthony Olszewski is the author of a booklet on Hudson County history, Hudson County Facts, and a book of short stories, Second Thief, Best Thief, that are sold on Amazon. Anthony Olszewski established PETCRAFT.com in 1996. A pioneer on the Web, the Site continues to provide unique information on a range of companion animals, focusing on birds and fish. As a community service, he operates Jersey City Free Books. Anthony Olszewski was born in Jersey City, NJ (Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, 1956) and is a member of Mensa. Email at anthony.olszewski@gmail.com

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