What do memory data tell us about the role of contingency awareness in evaluative conditioning?

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 617-623

  Gawronski, Bertram ^a   Walther, Eva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative processes; Attitudes; Consciousness; Dual Process theories; Evaluative conditioning; Implicit learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858069802     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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