The relational responding task: Toward a new implicit measure of beliefs

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  De Houwer, Jan ^a   Heider, Niclas ^a   Spruyt, Adriaan ^a   Roets, Arne ^a   Hughes, Sean ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Implicit measures; Racism; Relational responding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926645525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00319     Document Type: Article

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