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How Not to Fall for the White Bear: Combined Frequency and Recency Manipulations Diminish Negation Effects on Overt Behavior Cover

How Not to Fall for the White Bear: Combined Frequency and Recency Manipulations Diminish Negation Effects on Overt Behavior

Journal of Cognition
Volume 2 (2019): Issue 1
By: Robert Wirth,  Wilfried Kunde and  Roland Pfister  
Open Access
|Apr 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.62 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
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Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 28, 2018
Accepted on: Mar 21, 2019
Published on: Apr 23, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Cognitive Control,
Action,
Working memory

© 2019 Robert Wirth, Wilfried Kunde, Roland Pfister, published by Ubiquity Press
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