TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluative conditioning and conscious knowledge of contingencies
T2 - A correlational investigation with large samples
AU - Bar-Anan, Yoav
AU - De Houwer, Jan
AU - Nosek, Brian A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence should be addressed to Yoav Bar-Anan, Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, 84105. E-mail: baranany@bgu.ac.il This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH68447) to Brian Nosek and by Grant BOF/GOA2006/001 of Ghent University to Jan De Houwer.
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - Evaluative conditioning (EC) is a change in the valence of a stimulus that results from pairing the stimulus with an affective stimulus. Two high-powered studies (total N 1/4 1,161) investigated the nature of the relationship between EC and contingency awareness measured as contingency memory. Stronger EC occurred among people with more accurate and more confident memory of the pairings. Awareness was a necessary condition for EC, but EC was not necessary for awareness. Supporting a propositional account of EC, we found evidence for intentional reliance on the contingency for the evaluation of stimuli. We also found evidence that contingency memory was based both on the actual contingency and on preexisting attitudes.
AB - Evaluative conditioning (EC) is a change in the valence of a stimulus that results from pairing the stimulus with an affective stimulus. Two high-powered studies (total N 1/4 1,161) investigated the nature of the relationship between EC and contingency awareness measured as contingency memory. Stronger EC occurred among people with more accurate and more confident memory of the pairings. Awareness was a necessary condition for EC, but EC was not necessary for awareness. Supporting a propositional account of EC, we found evidence for intentional reliance on the contingency for the evaluation of stimuli. We also found evidence that contingency memory was based both on the actual contingency and on preexisting attitudes.
KW - Associative learning
KW - Evaluative conditioning
KW - False memory
KW - Propositional learning
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U2 - 10.1080/17470211003802442
DO - 10.1080/17470211003802442
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AN - SCOPUS:78649890682
VL - 63
SP - 2313
EP - 2335
JO - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
JF - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
SN - 1747-0218
IS - 12
ER -