Simple geometric shapes are implicitly associated with affective value

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 404-413

  Larson, Christine L ^a   Aronoff, Joel ^b   Steuer, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion perception; IAT; Implicit cognition; Threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864774524     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9249-2     Document Type: Article

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