Being on the lookout for validity: Comment on Sriram and Greenwald (2009)

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 228-232

  Friese, Malte ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implicit association test; Implicit measures; Validity

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STEREOTYPING; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 77951651099     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000051     Document Type: Review

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