Contrast Effects in Priming Paradigms: Implications for Theory and Research on Implicit Attitudes

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 383-403

  Scherer, Laura D ^a   Lambert, Alan J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic evaluation; contrast; implicit attitudes; priming; response mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 68949204961     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015844     Document Type: Article

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