Think the thought, walk the walk - Social priming reduces the Stroop effect

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-200

  Goldfarb, Liat ^a   Aisenberg, Daniela ^b   Henik, Avishai ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Control; Social priming; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CALCULATION; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STROOP TEST; TEACHING;

HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; SOCIAL FACILITATION; STROOP TEST;

EID: 78651108436     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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