Estimating the Valence of Single Stimuli: A New Variant of the Affective Simom Task

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 86-96

  Voß, Andreas ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^a   Wentura, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective Simon Task; Automatic evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTITUDE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0037968543     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026//1618-3169.50.2.86     Document Type: Article

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