Estimating the contributions of associations and recoding in the implicit association test: The ReAL model for the IAT

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-69

  Meissner, Franziska ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associations; Attitude measure; Consumer behavior; Implicit Association Test; Multinomial processing tree model; Recoding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875524957     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030734     Document Type: Article

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