January 23, 2023 - Jury selection or voir dire is the critical first step in preventing shock verdicts and the inevitable terrible headlines. Voir dire, a French term meaning "to speak the truth," is ...

“Social priming” has been the punching-bag of psychology for the past few years. The term “social priming” refers to the idea that subtle cues can exert large, unconscious influences on human ...

Social priming is the field of research about how thinking about or interacting with something (like warm coffee, or old age) can affect later, vaguely related behaviour. (Rolf Zwaan has a useful ...

One of the more common words you'll come across in the psychological literature is priming, which is defined as an instance where exposure to one stimulus influences the reaction to a subsequent one.

Merriam-Webster is continuing its tour of President Donald Trump’s word usage. Their latest effort to correct the President with facts involves the key phrase: “priming the pump.” In an interview with ...