Why do strangers feel familiar, but friends don't? A discrepancy-attribution account of feelings of familiarity

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 98, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 141-165

  Whittlesea, Bruce W A ^a   Williams, Lisa D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attribution; Familiarity; Fluency; Remembering

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COGNITION; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0032043442     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0001-6918(97)00040-1     Document Type: Article

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