Learning to (dis)like: The effect of evaluative conditioning with tastes and faces on odor valence assessed by implicit and explicit measurements

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 151, Issue , 2015, Pages 478-484

  van den Bosch, I ^a,b   van Delft, J M ^a,b   de Wijk, R A ^a,b   de Graaf, C ^a,b   Boesveldt, S ^b  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ANS measures; Evaluative conditioning; Liking; Odor; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATIVE CONDITIONING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SMELLING; TASTE; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FACIAL RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TASTE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939833390     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.08.017     Document Type: Article

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