I like you, I like you not: Understanding the formation of context-dependent automatic attitudes

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1118-1152

  Rydell, Robert J ^a   Gawronski, Bertram ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Attitude formation; Automatic evaluation; Context effects; Implicit measures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 69449108007     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802355255     Document Type: Article

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