Implicit attitudes, explicit choices: When subliminal priming predicts candidate preference

Political Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-367

  Kam, Cindy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Implicit measures; Party cues; Racism; Stereotypes; Subliminal priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547531603     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-007-9030-0     Document Type: Article

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