Evidence for the automatic evaluation of self-generated actions

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-127

  Aarts, Kristien ^a   Houwer, Jan De ^a   Pourtois, Gilles ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Action monitoring; Emotion; Evaluative priming; Goal conduciveness; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84862676805     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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