Imagining Fictitious Childhood Events: The Role of Individual Differences in Imagination Inflation

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 128-137

  Horselenberg, Robert ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a   Muris, Peter ^a   Rassin, Eric ^a   Sijsenaar, Madelon ^a   Spaan, Victor ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000905840     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0879(200005)7:2<128::AID-CPP238>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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