Automaticity of Social Behavior: Direct Effects of Trait Construct and Stereotype Activation on Action

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 230-244

  Bargh, John A ^a   Chen, Mark ^a   Burrows, Lara ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFFECT; AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0030210417     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.2.230     Document Type: Article

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