Do subliminal priming effects on emotion have clinical potential?

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-229

  Mayer, Birgit ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective pictures; Spider fearfuls; Subliminal primes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033426510     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615809908248330     Document Type: Article

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