Group Remembering: Does Social Loafing Underlie Collaborative Inhibition?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1568-1577

  Weldon, Mary Susan ^a   Blair, Cassidy ^a   Huebsch, Penny Dearmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOTIVATION; RECALL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034331798     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.6.1568     Document Type: Article

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