Memory Bias in the Assessment and Recall of Pre-Exam Anxiety: How Anxious Was I?

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1998, Pages

  Keuler, David J ^a   Safer, Martin A ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

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EID: 0004547399     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199812)12:73.0.co;2-2     Document Type: Article

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