Evaluative conditioning of high-novelty stimuli does not seem to be based on an automatic form of associative learning

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1118-1121

  Dedonder, Jonathan ^a   Corneille, Olivier ^a   Yzerbyt, Vincent ^a   Kuppens, Toon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Evaluative conditioning; Evaluative learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956612710     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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