A word-stem completion task to assess implicit processing of appearance-related information

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-78

  Tiggemann, Marika ^a   Hargreaves, Duane ^a   Polivy, Janet ^b   McFarlane, Traci ^c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appearance schemas; Cognitive processing; Media; Word stems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; BEAUTY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 3142606634     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3999(03)00565-8     Document Type: Article

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