The Impact of Perceived Threat on the Use of Automatic Associations in Person Judgments;Der Einfluß wahrgenommener Bedrohung auf die Nutzung automatischer Assoziationen bei der Personenbeurteilung

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 249-259

  Florack, Arnd ^a   Scarabis, Martin ^a   Bless, Herbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implicit association test; Implicit associations; Person perception; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346971862     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024//0044-3514.32.4.249     Document Type: Article

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