Politeness and memory for the wording of remarks

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 106-116

  Holtgraves, Thomas ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031021949     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03197288     Document Type: Article

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