Process Components of the Implicit Association Test: A Diffusion-Model Analysis

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-368

  Klauer, Karl Christoph ^a   Voss, Andreas ^a   Schmitz, Florian ^a   Teige Mocigemba, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

diffusion model; Implicit Association Test; implicit measures; implicit social cognition; mathematical model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POLITICS; REACTION TIME; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 34548837728     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.93.3.353     Document Type: Article

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