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Foerderer, Sabine and Unkelbach, Christian ORCID: 0000-0002-3793-6246 (2015). Attribute conditioning: Changing attribute-assessments through mere pairings. Q. J. Exp. Psychol., 68 (1). S. 144 - 165. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1747-0226

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Abstract

We propose Attribute Conditioning (AC) as a form of learning that refers to changes in people's assessment of stimuli's (CSs) attributes due to repeated pairing with stimuli possessing these attributes (USs). We review the available evidence and, based on this review, delineate three open questions and investigate them experimentally: a) the moderating role of CS-US similarity; b) the possibility of blocking; and c) the possibility of extinction. Five experiments conditioned health and athleticism. We measured AC effects on direct and indirect dependent variables (direct ratings and semantic misattribution). Experiment 1 shows that CS-US feature similarity does not moderate AC. Experiments 2 and 3 show that AC effects are insensitive to blocking; and Experiments 4 and 5 show that AC effects are resistant to extinction. These five experiments show that AC depends on CS-US contiguity, but not on CS-US contingency. Thereby, the study establishes AC as a simple learning phenomenon describing how people, stimuli, and concepts acquire specific attributes in people's minds due to mere pairings.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Foerderer, Sabine UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Unkelbach, Christian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3793-6246 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-414899
DOI:	10.1080/17470218.2014.939667
Journal or Publication Title:	Q. J. Exp. Psychol.
Volume:	68
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 144 - 165
Date:	2015
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1747-0226
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie Center of Excellence C-SEB
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language AFFECT MISATTRIBUTION PROCEDURE; TRAIT INFERENCES; EXTINCTION; VALENCE; ASSOCIATIONS; JUDGMENTS; ATTITUDES; BLOCKING; INKBLOT; MODEL Multiple languages Psychology, Biological; Physiology; Psychology; Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/41489