Changing likes and dislikes through the back door: The US-revaluation effect

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 889-917

  Walther, Eva ^a   Gawronski, Bertram ^b   Blank, Hartmut ^c   Langer, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative processes; Attitude change; Evaluative conditioning

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SELF REPORT; SENSORY STIMULATION;

EID: 68449095066     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802212423     Document Type: Article

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