Narrowing down to the automatically activated attitude: A narrowed conceptual scope improves correspondence between implicitly and explicitly measured attitudes

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 132-137

  Huntsinger, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual attention; Explicit measure; Global processing; Implicit measure; Implicit social cognition; Local processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867541151     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.07.018     Document Type: Article

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