Seeing More Than We Can Know: Visual Attention and Category Activation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 590-602

  Macrae, C Neil ^a   Bodenhausen, Galen V ^c   Milne, Alan B ^b   Calvini, Guglielmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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EID: 0346341080     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jesp.1999.1396     Document Type: Article

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