On the Road to the Unconscious Self: Understanding when People Gain Self-knowledge of Implicit Disgust Sensitivity from Behavioural Cues

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 355-376

  Zinkernagel, Axel ^a   Hofmann, Wilhelm ^b   Gerstenberg, Friederike X R ^c   Schmitt, Manfred ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic behavioural cues; Disgust sensitivity; Feedback of behaviour; Implicit Association Test; Implicit explicit consistency; Self knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881313594     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.1910     Document Type: Article

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