On the Automatic Evaluation of Social Exemplars

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-387

  Castelli, Luigi ^a   Zogmaister, Cristina ^a   Smith, Eliot R ^b   Arcuri, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUTOMATISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 1642348425     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.3.373     Document Type: Article

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