Eye'm lovin' it! The role of gazing awareness in mimetic desires

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 987-993

  Bry, Clémentine ^a   Treinen, Evelyne ^a   Corneille, Olivier ^a   Yzerbyt, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attitude formation dual models; Awareness; Effect of attention on affect; Evaluative learning; Joint attention; Mimetic desire

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959492968     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.03.023     Document Type: Article

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