When fair is foul and foul is fair: Reverse priming in automatic evaluation

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 669-687

  Glaser, Jack ^a   Banaji, Mahzarin R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; TIME;

AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0033212425     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.4.669     Document Type: Article

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