Implicit and explicit measures of attitudes: The perspective of the MODE model

Attitudes: Insights from the New Implicit Measures

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 19-63

  Olson, Michael A ^a   Fazio, Russell H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809884     Document Type: Chapter

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