When Expectancy Meets Desire: Motivational Effects in Reconstructive Memory

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-23

  McDonald, Hugh E ^a   Hirt, Edward R ^b  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 0030639674     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.1.5     Document Type: Article

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