Orienting response elicitation by personally significant information under subliminal stimulus presentation: Demonstration using the Concealed Information Test

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1610-1617

  Maoz, Keren ^a   Breska, Assaf ^a   Ben Shakhar, Gershon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Concealed Information Test; Orienting response; Skin conductance responses; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868193203     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01470.x     Document Type: Article

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