Sentence examples for mere exposure from inspiring English sources

Professor Zajonc was perhaps best known for discovering what he called the "mere exposure" effect.

The court ruled several years ago that mere exposure to asbestos was not sufficient to establish liability under federal law.

"Green products embody social considerations such that mere exposure to them increases subsequent pro-social behavior," the authors explained.

Now more than ever, we are skeptical about progress on so micro a level: the promise of friendship, the idea that mere exposure to difference is enough.

In line with the halo associated with green consumerism, people act more altruistically after mere exposure to green than conventional products.

The danger is not mere exposure to occasional violent or prurient images but the acceptance of a degraded environment that devalues everything.

Cue reactivity is the principle that mere exposure to cues associated with alcohol use (eg a bar setting, or seeing others drinking) can trigger physiological and psychological responses indicative of arousal such as increased heart rate, sweating and alcohol craving.

Building on recent research on behavioral priming and moral regulation, we find that mere exposure to green products and the purchase of them lead to markedly different behavioral consequences.

The [concept of] the mere-exposure effect says that the mere exposure to any stimulus to us biases us towards that stimulus: we are suckers for the familiar".

When participants are repeatedly presented with an unfamiliar stimulus, this stimulus is rated as more likable (mere-exposure effect) or more valid (truth effect) as compared with a similar non-repeated stimulus.

Two experiments found that the truth effect and the mere-exposure effect were strongly moderated by whether mixed lists or only repeated items were used at the test phase: whereas strong effects occurred in a context of repeated and non-repeated stimuli, the effects vanished with only repeated stimuli.