Understanding the role of executive control in the Implicit association Test: Why flexible people have small IAT effects

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 595-619

  Klauer, Karl Christoph ^a   Schmitz, Florian ^a   Teige Mocigemba, Sarah ^a   Voss, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Executive functions; IAT; Social cognition; Task set switching; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SACCADES; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76349095218     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903076826     Document Type: Article

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