Effects of positive, negative, and neutral moods on associative and semantic priming

Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-62

  Corson, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic and strategic processes; Cognition; Emotion; Memory; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036553807     PISSN: 02499185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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