Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-9

  Dijksterhuis, Ap ^a   Preston, Jesse ^b   Wegner, Daniel M ^c   Aarts, Henk ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agency; Attribution; Self; Subliminal priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448960506     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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