Psychology and Psychiatry; Investigators at University of Texas, Department of Psychology have published new data on psychology and psychiatry

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2010 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers detail in 'Psychological distance and priming: when do semantic primes impact social evaluations,' new data in psychology and psychiatry. "Semantic primes influence the impressions and evaluations people form of others. According to construal level theory (CLT), as stimuli get closer psychologically (e.g., physically, probabilistically), people construe stimuli in more concrete, localized, individuating terms," scientists in the United States report.