Applying the Attractor Field Model to Social Cognition: Perceptual Discrimination Is Facilitated, but Memory Is Impaired for Faces Displaying Evaluatively Congruent Expressions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 335-352

  Corneille, Olivier ^a   Hugenberg, Kurt ^b   Potter, Timothy ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique

Author keywords

emotions; face memory; face perception; prejudice; stereotyping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAUCASIAN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 34548813611     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.93.3.335     Document Type: Article

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