How social perception can automatically influence behavior

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-39

  Ferguson, Melissa J ^a   Bargh, John A ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PERCEPTION; READING; REVIEW;

EID: 0347063846     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2003.11.004     Document Type: Review

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