Knowing how to react: Automatic response priming from social categories

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 709-721

  Jonas, Kai J ^a   Sassenberg, Kai ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic behavior; Priming; Response behavior; Social category; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROLE PLAYING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATISM; CUES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ROLE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 33745191619     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.5.709     Document Type: Article

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