But for the bad, there would not be good: Grounding valence in brightness through shared relational structures

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 584-594

  Lakens, Daniël ^a   Semin, Gün R ^b,c   Foroni, Francesco ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brightness; Context effects; Emergent meaning; Knowledge structures; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; METAPHOR; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84872142027     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026468     Document Type: Article

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