sentences:  Stimuli may be automatically evaluated in ways that affect behavior, an "automatic evaluation".In a study conducted by Chen and Bargh, subjects were faster to pull a lever toward themselves (an approach tendency) when a word had a positive valence than a negative valence, and were similarly faster to push the lever away (an avoidance tendency) when the word had a negative valence compared to a positive valence.The "sequential evaluative priming paradigm"  refers to the related phenomenon of response times reducing when primed by stimuli with congruent valence.