Mental Modes: Priming of Expertise-Based Dispositions in Expertise-Unrelated Contexts

摘要: Why does the general demeanor of others change as soon they begin to ‘talk shop’ or do something else that puts them into ‘work-mode’? We propose such phenomena reflect an instance incidental priming in which environmental cues activate actional ‘sets’ formed through extensive training a particular domain (e.g., music). Accordingly, we demonstrated that, by activating ‘musician set,’ musically-related stimuli prime musicians spend more time on domain-irrelevant task rehearsing nonsense words compared controls non-primed musicians, this set should involve tendency towards deliberative practice. This finding provides additional evidence for central tenet social cognition research—that mere presence ambient influences behavioral dispositions systematically, ways often escape one’s awareness.