Long-lasting effects of subliminal affective priming from facial expressions

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 929-938

  Sweeny, Timothy D ^a   Grabowecky, Marcia ^a   Suzuki, Satoru ^a   Paller, Ken A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Awareness; Consciousness; Emotion; Facial expressions; Memory; Subliminal priming

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; RECALL;

AFFECT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 70449133763     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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