Project

Testing propositional theories of evaluative learning

Code
3E020116
Duration
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Animal experimental and comparative psychology
    • Applied psychology
    • Biological and physiological psychology
    • General psychology
    • Human experimental psychology
    • Social psychology
    • Other psychology and cognitive sciences
Keywords
learning propositional theory implicit evaluation
 
Project description

In this research project, we examine to what extent the learning of implicit or spontaneous evaluations depends on processes that allow for the formation of propositions in memory. We test propositional explanations of important empirical observations that are often seen as problematic for propositional theories and have fueled belief in alternative, associative accounts of evaluative learning.