Affective focus increases the concordance between implicit and explicit attitudes

Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 300-313

  Smith, Colin Tucker ^a   Nosek, Brian A ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Cognition; Explicit attitudes; Implicit attitudes; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052996474     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000072     Document Type: Article

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