Color as an environmental processing cue: External affective cues can directly affect processing strategy without affecting mood

Social Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-71

  Soldat, Alexander S ^a   Sinclair, Robert C ^a   Mark, Melvin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031522483     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.1997.15.1.55     Document Type: Article

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