Perceiving an exclusive cause of affect prevents misattribution

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1009-1015

  Ruys, Kirsten I ^a,b   Aarts, Henk ^a   Papies, Esther K ^a   Oikawa, Masanori ^c   Oikawa, Haruka ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Affect misattribution; AMP; Awareness; Source ambiguity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT MISATTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860520363     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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