Sohee Chung
Pronouns: She/her
Research Mentor(s): Eric Martell, Graduate Student
Research Mentor School/College/Department: Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Presentation Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Session: Session 4 (2pm-2:50pm)
Breakout Room: Room 7
Presenter: 5
Abstract
Priming has been widely known as an automatic process, occurring without conscious guidance or intention. This automatic priming mechanism provides a basis for syntactic priming, through which people repeat the syntactic structure that they have just heard. This study investigates the factors that affect syntactic priming, and specifically we focus on how sociopolitical factors affect the degree of priming. Participants were presented with a speaker who read sentences that had core liberal or conservative values. They were then required to describe novel illustrations that could be described using double object or prepositional object sentence structures. Results are still pending on this experiment, but we expect that sociopolitical factors will play a substantive role in increasing or decreasing the priming, depending on how much the participants agreed with the speaker.
Authors: Eric Martell
Research Method: Survey Research
