Masked emotional priming beyond global valence activations

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 224-244

  Rohr, Michaela ^a   Degner, Juliane ^b   Wentura, Dirk ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Automatic; Emotion perception; Facial expression; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84857306503     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.576852     Document Type: Article

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