On the nature of the affective priming effect: Effects of stimulus onset asynchrony and congruency proportion in naming and evaluative categorization

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-106

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE PRIMING EFFECT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34247863808     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195946     Document Type: Article

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