Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas including investing, insurance portfolio management, finance and accounting, personal investment and financial ...

Priming, an unconscious phenomenon that causes the context of information to change the way we think or behave, has frustrated scientists as they have unsuccessfully attempted to understand how it ...

What follows is a response to a recent article in ScienceNews on the replicability of priming effects in social psychology. [Also relevant is a new article in Nature online by Ed Yong concerning the ...

The great replicability mystery of ‘social priming’ in psychology (Nature 576, 200–202; 2019) turns out to reflect a mundane fact: priming studies (social or non-social) that use reliable methods are ...