The last forty years of social science research have produced over 12,000 articles on priming. The range, complexity, and novelty of priming effects are hard to comprehend, let alone explain, using a single model or perspective. In this review, we discuss content priming and process priming...

Evaluative conditioning is an important determinant of consumers' likes and dislikes. Three experiments show that it can result from two types of learning. First, stimulus-stimulus (S ndash; S) or referential learning allows a conditioned stimulus (e.g., a brand) to acquire valence by triggering...

This paper examines consumers’ attention traces (e.g., sequences of eye fixations and saccades) during choice. Due to reduced equipment cost and increased ease of analysis, attention traces can reflect a more fine-grained representation of decision-making activities (e.g., formation of a...