Exerting control over allegedly automatic associative processes

Psychology of Self-Regulation: Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 249-269

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Bluemke, Matthias ^a   Unkelbach, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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EID: 84920656436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203837962     Document Type: Chapter

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