Competition between unconditioned stimuli in attitude formation: Negative asymmetry versus spatio-temporal contiguity

Social Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 905-916

  Rydell, Robert J ^a   Jones, Christopher R ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73849149771     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2009.27.6.905     Document Type: Article

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