CLASSICAL CONDITIONING OF EMOTIONAL RESPONSES (MEANING, ATTITUDES, VALUES, INTERESTS) AND EFFECTS ON SOCIAL BEHAVIOR: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

The document is concerned with experimental development of the hypothesis that emotional responses--or evaluative responses, evaluative meaning, attitudes, values and so on--constitute an important type of response that can be calssically conditioned to words. Many stimuli elicit emotional responses and the words that are contiguously paired with those stimuli also come to elicit an emotional response. Moreover, once a word comes to elicit an emotional response the word can serve to condition emotionality to any other stimulus with which it is paired. A number of experiments have been conducted that show that emotional responses can be conditioned to words and that many words in the language elicit emotional responses that can be conditioned to other stimuli. The present bibliography lists the various experimental studies and theoretical analyses to April 1970.