Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA07393 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:45:51 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745BC3@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: priming Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:44:27 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Yes, I see what you're saying.
Vincent
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> From: Paul Marsden
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:30 pm
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: priming
>
> Thanks for this Vincent - interesting. I too am sceptical of a
> crude/extreme Berkowitz media effects by priming model - and as a
> sociologist turned social psychologist I have inclinations against media
> effects in multifaceted world of many influences. Nevertheless, to avoid
> the Fundamental Attribution Error (that meanings and actions are somehow
> not shaped by current context) and an essentialist view of self, I think
> it may be useful to see that our definition of situations and the meanings
> we imbibe them are coloured by the context - our minds are primed by
> meanings employed around us, so that these genes of meaning - memes may be
> said to influence our meaningful behaviour. Thus a self-assessment of
> liklihood to act suicidally appears to be influenced in the short term by
> whether one reads Cobain's suicide note (positively framed) or Courtney
> Love's negatively framed annotated version of the note. Anybody caught in
> an unresolved approach-avoidance dilemma to suicide and exposed to the
> note, could plausibly use the note to inform the meaning of suicide which
> may then inform the decision. Thus exposure to media representations of
> suicide could influence a suicide such that suicide becomes more (or
> indeed less) likely - i.e. suicide contagion.
>
>
> Paul Marsden
> tel: +44 (0) 777 95 77 248
> email: paul@viralculture.com
>
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