Dissociative Affective and Associative Priming Effects in the Lexical Decision Task: Yes Versus No Responses to Word Targets Reveal Evaluative Judgment Tendencies

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 456-469

  Wentura, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0034153457     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.2.456     Document Type: Article

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