Goal relevance moderates evaluative conditioning effects

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 107-115

  Verwijmeren, Thijs ^a   Karremans, Johan C ^a   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^b,c   Wigboldus, Daniël H J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evaluative conditioning; Goals; Learning; Motivation; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864506855     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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