Of gnomes and leprechauns: The recruitment of recent and categorical contexts in social judgment

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 361-389

  Pettibone, Jonathan C ^a   Wedell, Douglas H ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Decision making; Judgment; Learning; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FACE; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FACE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREJUDICE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34447097155     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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