Faking on direct, indirect, and behavioural measures of spider fear: Can you get away with it?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 549-558

  Langner, Oliver ^a   Ouwens, Machteld ^a   Muskens, Marjolein ^a   Trumpf, Julia ^a   Becker, Eni S ^a   Rinck, Mike ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AAT; Direct measures; Fake detection; Faking; Indirect measures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SPIDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77951008733     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802652412     Document Type: Article

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