When the method makes a difference: Antagonistic effects on "automatic evaluations" as a function of task characteristics of the measure

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-114

  Deutsch, Roland ^a   Gawronski, Bertram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affect misattribution; Affective priming; Automatic evaluation; Implicit measures; Response interference

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549105423     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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