Evaluative conditioning: Recent developments and future directions

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 79-88

  Gast, Anne ^a   Gawronski, Bertram ^b   De Houwer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Evaluative conditioning; Functional definition; Mental process theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864508155     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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