Differential Stability: The Effects of Acute and Chronic Construct Accessibility on the Temporal Stability of the Implicit Association Test

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 70-79

  Gschwendner, Tobias ^a   Hofmann, Wilhelm ^b   Schmitt, Manfred ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implicit Association Test; malleability of implicit measures; person situation interaction; temporal stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449135614     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001.29.2.70     Document Type: Article

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