Creating distinct implicit and explicit attitudes with an illusory correlation paradigm

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 721-728

  Ratliff, Kate A ^a   Nosek, Brian A ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude formation; Covariation detection; Illusory correlation; Implicit association test

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955583766     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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