Base rate effects on the IAT

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1029-1038

  Bluemke, Matthias ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment of mental representations; Automatic association; Implicit attitude; Indirect measure; Word frequency effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RESPONSE TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449123802     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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