Memories out of Order: Thought Suppression and the Disturbance of Sequence Memory

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 680-691

  Wegner, Daniel M ^a   Quillian, Frances ^a   Houston, Christopher E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; THINKING; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REPRESSION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; THINKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030266881     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.4.680     Document Type: Article

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