Task-switching methodology: A platform for indirect measures of evaluation and evaluative personality processes

Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-22

  Rahamim, Ofer ^a   Bar Anan, Yoav ^a   Shahar, Golan ^a,b   Meiran, Nachshon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Emotion; Evaluation; Indirect measures; Personality; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876398188     PISSN: 21908370     EISSN: 21512604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000126     Document Type: Review

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