What are the current suggested normative, mechanistic or phenomenological models for explaining primacy effect as was observed by Solomon Asch (1946) on personality impression,  list-of-words memory recall and other forms as was reviewed extensively in one example of primacy in wine tasting by Mantonakis et al. (2009)?Mantonakis, A., Pauline Rodero, Isabelle Lesschaeve, and Reid Hastie (2009). Order in Choice: Effects of Serial Position on Preferences.Psychological Science November 2009 20: 1309-1312, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02453.xAsch, S.E. (1946). Forming impressions of psychology. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 41, 258. FREE PDF
What are the current suggested models for Primacy Effect in memory recall or personality impression?
cognitive psychology;memory;cognitive modeling