On the inference of personal authorship: enhancing experienced agency by priming effect information.

@article{citeulike:1224345, abstract = {Three experiments examined whether the mere priming of potential action effects enhances people's feeling of causing these effects when they occur. In a computer task, participants and the computer independently moved a rapidly moving square on a display. Participants had to press a key, thereby stopping the movement. However, the participant or the computer could have caused the square to stop on the observed position, and accordingly, the stopped position of the square could be conceived of as the potential effect resulting from participants' action of pressing the stop key. The location of this position was primed or not just before participants had to stop the movement. Results showed that (subliminal as well as supraliminal) priming of the position enhanced experienced authorship of stopping the square. Additional experimentation demonstrated that this priming of agency was not mediated by the goal or intention to produce the effect.}, address = {Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands. h.aarts@fss.uu.nl}, author = {Aarts, H. and Custers, R. and Wegner, D. M. }, citeulike-article-id = {1224345}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2004.11.001}, issn = {1053-8100}, journal = {Conscious Cogn}, keywords = {agency, inference, observation, priming}, month = {September}, number = {3}, pages = {439--458}, posted-at = {2007-04-13 17:10:56}, priority = {3}, title = {On the inference of personal authorship: enhancing experienced agency by priming effect information.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2004.11.001}, volume = {14}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1224345 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1224345 TI - On the inference of personal authorship: enhancing experienced agency by priming effect information. JF - Conscious Cogn VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 439 EP - 458 AD - Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands. h.aarts@fss.uu.nl SN - 1053-8100 N2 - Three experiments examined whether the mere priming of potential action effects enhances people's feeling of causing these effects when they occur. In a computer task, participants and the computer independently moved a rapidly moving square on a display. Participants had to press a key, thereby stopping the movement. However, the participant or the computer could have caused the square to stop on the observed position, and accordingly, the stopped position of the square could be conceived of as the potential effect resulting from participants' action of pressing the stop key. The location of this position was primed or not just before participants had to stop the movement. Results showed that (subliminal as well as supraliminal) priming of the position enhanced experienced authorship of stopping the square. Additional experimentation demonstrated that this priming of agency was not mediated by the goal or intention to produce the effect. KW - agency KW - inference KW - observation KW - priming AU - Aarts, H AU - Custers, R AU - Wegner, DM PY - 2005/09// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2004.11.001 ER -