Ego depletion moderates the influence of automatic and controlled precursors of reactive aggression: A double dissociation

Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 132-141

  Schmidt, Alexander F ^a,b   Zimmermann, Philipp S ^a   Banse, Rainer ^a   Imhoff, Roland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ego depletion; Implicit Association Test (IAT); Implicit measures; Reactive aggression; Self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930688640     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000233     Document Type: Article

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