A robust classic: Illusory correlations are maintained under extended operant learning

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 443-453

  Kutzner, Florian ^a   Vogel, Tobias ^b   Freytag, Peter ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Matching to sample; Skewed base rates

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84255201548     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000112     Document Type: Article

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