Context Specificity of Implicit Preferences: The Case of Human Preference for Red

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 734-738

  Maier, Markus A ^a   Barchfeld, Petra ^b   Elliot, Andrew J ^c   Pekrun, Reinhard ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

approach; avoidance; color preference; context; red

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MATERIALS; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFFECT; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 70350131462     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016818     Document Type: Article

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