Beyond evaluative conditioning! evidence for transfer of non-evaluative attributes

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 479-486

  Förderer, Sabine ^a   Unkelbach, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective misattribution procedure; Associative transfer; Categorical priming; Evaluative conditioning; Non evaluative attribute

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051725538     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611398413     Document Type: Article

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