Interesting article at Cognitive Daily:

A team led by Kerry Kawakami explored whether priming could affect attitudes which opposed the inclinations of the people being primed. They asked college students to describe a picture of an elderly woman for five minutes -- her hobbies, interests, and general character. Then they asked their opinions on issues which young and old people typically disagree: health care, TV nudity, etc. A control group was primed with a picture of a young woman, and another group wasn't primed at all. In every case, the college students who had been primed with the concept "elderly" expressed more conservative, "older" opinions. Suspecting that the participants might have caught on to their hidden agenda, the experimenters interviewed them to learn if they had adjusted their responses because of the priming; none indicated any awareness of the purpose of the study.

Read the rest to find out how it relates to terrorism and made-for-tv movies.

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