Hating the cute kitten or loving the aggressive pit-bull: EC effects depend on CS-US relations

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 534-540

  Förderer, Sabine ^a   Unkelbach, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Attitude acquisition; Evaluative conditioning; Propositional reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; EVALUATIVE CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; HATE; HUMANS; LOVE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84859637117     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.588687     Document Type: Article

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