Resolving the Apparent Discrepancy between the Incongruency Effect and the Expectancy-Based Illusory Correlation Effect: The TRAP Model

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 845-860

  Garcia Marques, Leonel ^a   Hamilton, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; RECALL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0030279251     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.5.845     Document Type: Article

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