Evaluative conditioning without directly experienced pairings of the conditioned and the unconditioned stimuli

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1657-1674

  Gast, Anne ^a   de Houwer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evaluative conditioning; Implicit attitudes; Implicit measures; Propositional model; Second order conditioning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84864501866     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.665061     Document Type: Article

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