The "weapons effect" is the finding that the presence of a weapon or even a picture of a weapon can cause people to behave more aggressively. On each of the 192 trials, a computer presented a prim...The "weapons effect" is the finding that the presence of a weapon or even a picture of a weapon can cause people to behave more aggressively. On each of the 192 trials, a computer presented a priming stimulus word (either a weapon or non-weapon word) for 1.25 seconds, a blank screen for 0.5 seconds, and then a target word (aggressive or non-aggressive word).
The "weapons effect" is the finding that the presence of a weapon or even a picture of a weapon can cause people to behave more aggressively. On each of the 192 trials, a computer presented a prim...The "weapons effect" is the finding that the presence of a weapon or even a picture of a weapon can cause people to behave more aggressively. On each of the 192 trials, a computer presented a priming stimulus word (either a weapon or non-weapon word) for 1.25 seconds, a blank screen for 0.5 seconds, and then a target word (aggressive or non-aggressive word).