Towards optimizing the name letter test as a measure of implicit self-esteem

Self and Identity

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-77

  Albers, Luuk ^a   Rotteveel, Mark ^a   Dijksterhuis, Ap ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Implicit self esteem; Name letter effect; Name letter test

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149120841     PISSN: 15298868     EISSN: 15298876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15298860802091062     Document Type: Article

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