Approach behavior can mitigate predominately univalent negative attitudes: Evidence regarding insects and spiders.
Three experiments tested whether disliking of predominately univalently negative attitude objects could be reduced by a procedure pairing approach behaviors with subliminally presented images of the objects. Experiment 1 demonstrated that participants who approached images of insects rated insects l...
| Publicado en: | Emotion (15283542) Vol. 13; no. 5; pp. 989 - 997 |
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American Psychological Association
2013 Oct
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