When old and frail is not the same: Dissociating category and stimulus effects in four implicit attitude measurement methods

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 479-498

  Gast, Anne ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective valence; Categorization; Extrinsic Affective Simon Task; Implicit Association Test; Implicit measures of attitudes; Recoding processes; Stimulus effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NAMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949554510     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903049963     Document Type: Article

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