How to administer the Initial Preference Task

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-78

  Stieger, Stefan ^a   Voracek, Martin ^a   Formann, Anton K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Birthday number effect; Implicit self esteem; Initial preference task; Meta analysis; Name letter effect; Scoring algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855654229     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.823     Document Type: Article

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