Verbal instruction abolishes fear conditioned to racial out-group faces

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1303-1307

  Mallan, Kimberley M ^a   Sax, James ^a   Lipp, Ottmar V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fear learning; Racial prejudice; Startle eyeblink; Verbal instructions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350337970     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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