What's in a name: Implicit self-esteem and the automatic self

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 669-685

  Koole, Sander L ^a   Dijksterhuis, Ap ^b   Van Knippenberg, Ad ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; NAMES; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 85047684412     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.80.4.669     Document Type: Article

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