On each trial in an experiment, a researcher exposes participants to either a pleasant or an unpleasant priming picture for several milliseconds. She then shows participants a picture of a person's face and asks the participants to rate the person's likeability. The researcher is MOST likely studying:

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The researcher is exposing participants to priming pictures for only milliseconds, making it likely that the influence is subliminal (below conscious awareness). Additionally, the fact that she is asking participants to rate the likeability of a person's face suggests that she is interested in the effect of the priming pictures on social judgments. This aligns with research on subliminal influences on social cognition.

On Each Trial in an Experiment, a Researcher Exposes Participants