The influence of extinction and counterconditioning instructions on evaluative conditioning effects

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 312-325

  Gast, Anne ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Counterconditioning; Evaluative conditioning; Extinction; Instructions; Propositional model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885382478     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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