Dissociating Contingency Awareness and Conditioned Attitudes: Evidence of Contingency-Unaware Evaluative Conditioning

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. General Vol. 141; no. 3; pp. 539 - 557
• Main Authors: Hutter, Mandy, Sweldens, Steven, Stahl, Christoph, Unkelbach, Christian, Klauer, Karl Christoph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01.08.2012
• Subjects: Adult; Association (Psychology); Associative Learning; Attitudes; Awareness; College Students; Conditioning; Conditioning (Psychology); Consciousness; Contingency Management; Evaluation; Female; Foreign Countries; Germany; Humans; Male; Measures (Individuals); Memory; Models, Psychological; Photic Stimulation; Simulation; Validity; Germany

Whether human evaluative conditioning can occur without contingency awareness has been the subject of an intense and ongoing debate for decades, troubled by a wide array of methodological difficulties. Following recent methodological innovations, the available evidence currently points to the conclu...