Make the manikin move: Symbolic approach-avoidance responses affect implicit and explicit face evaluations

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 738-744

  Woud, Marcella L ^a   Maas, Joyce ^a   Becker, Eni S ^a   Rinck, Mike ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Approach avoidance training; Implicit and explicit face evaluations; Manikin task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER; EVALUATION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT;

EID: 84884588744     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2013.817413     Document Type: Article

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