Unpriming: The deactivation of thoughts through expression

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1009-1019

  Sparrow, Betsy ^a,b   Wegner, Daniel M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Answering questions; Control; Intelligence; Knowledge; Knowledge bias; Priming; Unpriming

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; REINFORCEMENT; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AWARENESS; CUES; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, RESPONSE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY); THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33845269119     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.6.1009     Document Type: Article

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