What you see is what will change: Evaluative conditioning effects depend on a focus on valence

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-110

  Gast, Anne ^a,b   Rothermund, Klaus ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affective learning; Attention; Attitudes; Evaluative conditioning; Goal dependence; Valence focus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTITUDE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78651252713     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931003696380     Document Type: Article

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