Dissociative experiences and interrogative suggestibility in college students

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1133-1140

  Merckelbach, Harald ^a   Muris, Peter ^a   Rassin, Eric ^a   Horselenberg, Robert ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive failures; DES; Dissociative experiences; Fantasy proneness; Suggestibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034356148     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00260-3     Document Type: Article

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