Can the Formation of Conditioned Attitudes Be Intentionally Controlled?

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 419-432

  Gawronski, Bertram ^a   Balas, Robert ^b   Creighton, Laura A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

attitude formation; automaticity; cognitive control; evaluative conditioning

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RECALL;

AFFECT; ATTITUDE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL;

EID: 84898678504     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167213513907     Document Type: Article

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