Affective priming of nonaffective semantic categorization responses

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-53

  Spruyt, Adriaan ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a   Hermans, Dirk ^b   Eelen, Paul ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Affective stimulus processing; Attention; Primacy of affect; Response interference vs. encoding; Stroop

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

AFFECT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33847248934     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.54.1.44     Document Type: Article

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