Odours as Affective-processing Context for Word Evaluation: A Case of Cross-modal Affective Priming

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 601-613

  Hermans, Dirk ^a   Baeyens, Frank ^b   Eelen, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NONE

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EID: 0001529512     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026999398379583     Document Type: Article

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