Are implicit motives revealed in mere words? Testing the marker-word hypothesis with computer-based text analysis

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Schultheiss, Oliver C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity inhibition; Assessment; Implicit motives; Linguistic analysis; Personality; Picture story exercise; Thematic apperception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926139935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00748     Document Type: Article

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