Dissociating contingency awareness and conditioned attitudes: Evidence of contingency-unaware evaluative conditioning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 539-557

  Hütter, Mandy ^a   Sweldens, Steven ^b   Stahl, Christoph ^c   Unkelbach, Christian ^c   Klauer, Karl Christoph ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSEAD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude formation; Contingency awareness; Evaluative conditioning; Multinomial modeling; Process dissociation procedure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84872130609     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026477     Document Type: Article

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