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This study investigated whether an occupational title can, by activating facial information in memory, affect decisions about faces as physical configurations, and whether it can do so within milliseconds of the title's presentation. On each of a series of trials, subjects were presented with a bisected face-like stimulus and were asked to indicate whether both halves came from the same face. Response time was measured. The stimulus was preceded on some trials by a prime (an occupational title that had been rated as either congruent or incongruent with it). The prime-to-stimulus interval (PSI) was 350 or 1000 msec. Incongruent primes were found to slow responses to subsequent faces, in comparison with a no-prime control. The effects of congruent primes varied with the specific occupational title, but at least some titles facilitated responses to subsequent congruent faces, and these same titles tended to produce the strongest inhibitory effects when they preceded an incongruent face. The effects were as s... |
