Flashbulb memories and the underlying mechanisms of their formation: Toward an emotional-integrative model

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 516-531

  Finkenauer, Catrin ^a   Luminet, Olivier ^a   Gisle, Lydia ^a   El Ahmadi, Abdessadek ^b,c   Van Der Linden, Martial ^b   Philippot, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; MODEL;

EID: 0031978360     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201160     Document Type: Article

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