Top-down modulation impairs priming susceptibility in complex decision-making with social implications.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
25 10 2022
Historique:
received: 23 06 2022
accepted: 18 10 2022
entrez: 25 10 2022
pubmed: 26 10 2022
medline: 28 10 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Could social context variables prime complex decisions? Could top-down processes impair this priming susceptibility? Complex decisions have been mainly studied from economic and moral perspectives, and Dual Process Theories provide evidence of how these processes could be affected. To address these issues from a political perspective, online experiments were conducted. Participants (n = 252) were asked to choose a face from 4 options, each associated with different frequencies (repetition priming) or with phrases with different emotional valence (emotional priming), for an unspecified task (UST group) or an important task (IMT group). The most repeated face was chosen most in the UST group, and was associated with lower response times. Positive faces were equally chosen by both groups. To compare results in a more ecological situation, a social study was conducted during the 2019 Argentine Presidential Election, including online surveys (n = 3673) and analysis of news media mentioning candidates. The familiarity and trust to each candidate explained the voting-probability for most of them, as well as correlated with their frequency of mentions in the news, their positive associations, and election results. Our results suggest complex decision-making is susceptible to priming, depending on top-down modulation.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36284155
doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-22707-x
pii: 10.1038/s41598-022-22707-x
pmc: PMC9595095
doi:

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Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

17867

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Franco Agustín Bernal (FA)

Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIByNE-UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tomás Alves Salgueiro (TA)

Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIByNE-UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Axel Brzostowski (A)

Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIByNE-UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Emilio Recart Zapata (ER)

Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIByNE-UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ayelén Carames (A)

Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIByNE-UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Juan Manuel Pérez (JM)

Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación (ICC), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Damián Furman (D)

Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación (ICC), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Martín Graziano (M)

Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Pablo Nicolás Fernández Larrosa (PNF)

Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIByNE-UBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. fernandezlarrosa@fbmc.fcen.uba.ar.

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