A multinomial modeling approach to dissociate different components of the truth effect

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-38

  Unkelbach, Christian ^a   Stahl, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cue learning; Process dissociation; Processing fluency; Truth judgments

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; VALIDITY;

CULTURE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME FACTORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62749127264     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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