Contrasting rule-based and similarity-based category learning: The effects of mood and prior knowledge on ambiguous categorization

Journal of Consumer Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 362-371

  Noseworthy, Theodore J ^a   Goode, Miranda R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Category learning; Mood; Perceptual similarity; Product ambiguity; Verbal rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958849285     PISSN: 10577408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcps.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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