Attentional influences on affective priming: Does categorisation influence spontaneous evaluations of multiply categorisable objects?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1008-1025

  Gawronski, Bertram ^a   Cunningham, William A ^b   LeBel, Etienne P ^a   Deutsch, Roland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect misattribution; Affective priming; Categorisation; Implicit measures; Reliability; Response interference

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGEISM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 77956135613     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903112712     Document Type: Article

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