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Primacy Effects

Primacy Effects is a cognitive bias in impression formation whereby initial information exerts a disproportionately stronger influence on the overall judgment or perception of a person or event compared to subsequently presented information.

393

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25.4K

Citations

922

Authors

407

Institutions

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2017–2026

55

Variants

Primacy Effect

Parents

Publications

393

The serial position effect of free recall.

Bennet B. Murdock · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1962 · 1.8K citations

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On the primacy of cognition.

Richard S. Lazarus · American Psychologist · 1984 · 1.3K citations

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The freezing and unfreezing of lay-inferences: Effects on impressional primacy, ethnic stereotyping, and numerical anchoring

Arie W. Kruglanski, Tallie Freund · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1983 · 1.1K citations

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An Evaluation of a Cognitive Theory of Response-Order Effects in Survey Measurement

Jon A. Krosnick, Duane F. Alwin · Public Opinion Quarterly · 1987 · 820 citations

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The primacy model: A new model of immediate serial recall.

Michael P. A. Page, Dennis Norris · Psychological Review · 1998 · 776 citations

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Authors

922

  1. AA
    Anthony A. Wright

    The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, United States

    7 publications · 437 citations

    7

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  2. GW
    Geoff Ward

    University of Essex, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 420 citations

    5

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  3. TH
    Tore Helstrup

    University of Bergen, Norway

    4 publications · 104 citations

    4

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  4. IN
    Ian Neath

    Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

    4 publications · 67 citations

    4

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  5. DB
    Davide Bruno

    Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, United States

    4 publications · 140 citations

    4

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Institutions

407

  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    10 h-index

    24 publications

    916 citations

  2. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    1.4K citations

  3. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    7 h-index

    18 publications

    987 citations

  4. University of Essex

    Colchester, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    665 citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    582 citations

  6. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    414 citations

  7. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    408 citations

  8. University of Newcastle Australia

    Newcastle, Australia

    5 h-index

    19 publications

    882 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    15 publications · 1.7K citations

    15

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  2. 13

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  3. 10

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  4. The Journal of General Psychology

    8 publications · 183 citations

    8

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  5. Child Development

    7 publications · 180 citations

    7

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