Learned irrelevance: No more than the sum of cs and us preexposure effects?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-191

  Bonardi, Charlotte ^a   Hall, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001184747     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.22.2.183     Document Type: Article

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