Implicit learning and non-clinical paranoia: Does content matter?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 143-157

  Combs, Dennis R ^a   Penn, David L ^b   Mathews, Robert C ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Content specific bias; Implicit learning; Non clinical paranoia; Social and non social stimuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037211919     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00038-7     Document Type: Article

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