Direction of so-called affective priming effects in the evaluation task: Evidence for automatic vigilance for negative information;Ausgestaltung sogenannter affektiver Voraktivierungseffekte in der evaluativen Entscheidungsaufgabe: Hinweise auf automatische Vigilanz für negative Informationen

Zeitschrift fur Psychologie

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 137-152

  Suslow, Thomas ^a,b   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Automatic vigilance

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044526916     PISSN: 00443409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026//0044-3409.209.2.137     Document Type: Article

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