Manipulating the role of cognitive control while taking the implicit association test

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1057-1068

  Siegel, Eric F ^a   Dougherty, Michael R ^a   Huber, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Implicit Association Test; Political attitudes; Racial attitudes; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863329793     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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