Guess what? Implicit motivation boosts the influence of subliminal information on choice

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1232-1241

  Milyavsky, Maxim ^a   Hassin, Ran R ^a   Schul, Yaacov ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Decision making; Intuition; Motivation; Subliminal priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MOTIVATION; INTUITION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SELF CONTROL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBLIMINAL PRIMING; WORD RECOGNITION;

AWARENESS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; INTUITION; MOTIVATION; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84865397741     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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