First thought, best thought: Positive mood maintains and negative mood degrades implicit-explicit attitude correspondence

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-197

  Huntsinger, Jeffrey R ^a   Smith, Colin Tucker ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Automaticity; Implicit attitudes; Implicit social cognition; Mood

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUTOMATISM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THINKING;

AFFECT; ATTITUDE; AUTOMATISM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THINKING;

EID: 58449093743     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208327000     Document Type: Article

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