Not So Fast: Ten Challenges to Importing Implicit Attitude Measures to Media Psychology

Media Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 338-369

  Blanton, Hart ^a   Jaccard, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84942985593     PISSN: 15213269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2015.1008102     Document Type: Article

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