Unconscious manipulation of free choice in humans

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 397-408

  Kiesel, Andrea ^a   Wagener, Annika ^a   Kunde, Wilfried ^b   Hoffmann, Joachim ^a   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^a   Stöcker, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free choice; LRP; Subliminal priming; Unconscious cognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MALE; MATHEMATICS; REACTION TIME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646544000     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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