Automatic evaluation isn't that crude! moderation of masked affective priming by type of valence

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 609-628

  Wentura, Dirk ^a   Degner, Juliane ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Evaluation; Implicit attitudes; Prejudice; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKED AFFECTIVE PRIMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77952413519     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930902854587     Document Type: Article

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