Encouraging the Perceptual Underdog: Positive Affective Priming of Nonpreferred Local-Global Processes

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 238-247

  Tan, Hannah K ^a   Jones, Gregory V ^a   Watson, Derrick G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

affective priming; local and global perception; positive emotion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AFFECT; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 65249105993     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014713     Document Type: Article

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