When Nonsense Sounds Happy or Helpless: The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT)

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 500-516

  Quirin, Markus ^a   Kazén, Miguel ^a   Kuhl, Julius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

affect priming; implicit affect; indirect assessment; negative affect; positive affect

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949198065     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016063     Document Type: Article

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