Interpreting ambiguous stimuli: Separating perceptual and judgmental biases

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1048-1056

  Voss, Andreas ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^b   Brandtstädter, Jochen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Diffusion model; Fast dm; Motivated cognition; Perceptual bias; Top down influences

Indexed keywords

EID: 44549085469     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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