I'm no longer torn after choice: How explicit choices implicitly shape preferences of odors

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 489-493

  Coppin, Géraldine ^a   Delplanque, Sylvain ^a   Cayeux, Isabelle ^b   Porcherot, Christelle ^b   Sander, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Decision making; Implicit processing; Olfaction; Preferences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ODOR; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PLEASURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL;

ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ODORS; PLEASURE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SMELL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951244563     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610364115     Document Type: Article

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