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Current models account for the primacy effect in memory and impression formation
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Current scientific models and empirical findings regarding the primacy effect in memory and impression formation are mixed, with robust support in certain evaluative and long-term memory contexts alongside demonstrated recency effects or boundary conditions in legal and working memory domains.

Evidence for · 3
The primacy of morality in impression development: Theory, research, and future directions
2021 · cited by 133
Research shows that moral trait information maintains a dominant, early-stage role in shaping overall impression development.
Evidence against · 2
Differential information transfer and loss between working memory and long-term memory across serial positions.
2025 · cited by 5
Findings indicate that serial position effects do not always show robust primacy in working memory, demonstrating dissociation from long-term memory.
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Matters Order: The Role of Information Order on Implicit Impression Formation
2020 · cited by 17
Experimental findings confirm that strong primacy effects operate even at the implicit level during impression formation.
Time course of the physiological stress response to an acute stressor and its associations with the primacy and recency effect of the serial position curve
2019 · cited by 3
Studies utilize the primacy effect of serial position curves as reliable indicators for long-term memory performance.
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Law and order effects: on cognitive dissonance and belief perseverance.
2022 · cited by 5
Results show that legal evidence presentation can yield recency rather than primacy effects depending on context.
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