On the formation and persistence of implicit attitudes: New evidence from the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP)

Psychological Record

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 391-410

  Hughes, Sean ^a   Barnes Holmes, Dermot ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Associative; Attitude change; Attitude formation; IAT; Implicit attitudes; Implicit relational assessment procedure; IRAP; Propositional

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052215371     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03395768     Document Type: Article

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