An adaptive-learning approach to affect regulation: Strategic influences on evaluative priming

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 426-439

  Freytag, Peter ^a   Bluemke, Matthias ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive cognition; Evaluative priming; Pseudocontingencies

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL;

EID: 79952730435     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.537081     Document Type: Article

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