I Like It Because I Said That I Like It: Evaluative Conditioning Effects Can Be Based on Stimulus-Response Learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 466-476

  Gast, Anne ^a,b   Rothermund, Klaus ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluative conditioning; Evaluative response; S R learning; S S learning; US revaluation

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 80054977758     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023077     Document Type: Article

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