Reading too much between the lines: Illusory correlation and the word association implications test

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 799-808

  Dollinger, Stephen J ^a   Greening, Leilani ^b   Radtke, Robert C ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Illusory correlation; Implication; Priming; Schema; Verbal reasoning; Word association

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041321153     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00072-6     Document Type: Article

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