Power, as a ubiquitous feature of social relations, is frequently used in information processing. Due to its relevance for social interactions, we expected that power is automatically processed. In three experiments, participants categorized stimuli in a response window priming procedure as either powerful or power-neutral. The stimuli were preceded by briefly presented primes that were either never used as targets or were also used as targets. We obtained evidence for an automatic, unintentional processing of power-related pictures even when novel primes were processed. The effect even occurred when primes and targets did not share any perceptual features, such that primes had to be processed semantically. We further revealed correlations between the automatic processing of power cues and right-wing authoritarianism, but not social dominance orientation status, or power ability. In sum, we show a stable priming effect indicating that power is automatically processed from briefly presented primes.

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看起来像力量：自动处理来自简要介绍的素数的力量提示

权力作为社会关系中无处不在的特征，在信息处理中经常被使用。由于它与社交互动的相关性，我们预计权力是自动处理的。在三个实验中，参与者将响应窗口启动程序中的刺激分类为强大或中性。刺激之前是简要介绍的素数，这些素数要么从未用作目标，要么也用作目标。即使处理了新的素数，我们也获得了自动、无意地处理与功率相关的图片的证据。当素数和目标不共享任何感知特征时，这种效果甚至会发生，因此必须对素数进行语义处理。我们进一步揭示了权力线索的自动处理与右翼威权主义之间的相关性，但不是社会支配取向的地位，也不是权力能力。总之，我们展示了一种稳定的启动效应，表明功率是从简要呈现的启动中自动处理的。