Beyond awareness and resources: Evaluative conditioning may be sensitive to processing goals

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 279-282

  Corneille, O ^a   Yzerbyt, V Y ^a   Pleyers, G ^a   Mussweiler, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Evaluative conditioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549107144     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.020     Document Type: Article

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