Intimacy, concreteness, and the "self-reference effect"

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 73-79

  Czienskowski, Uwe ^a   Giljohann, Stefanie ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concreteness; Experimental validation of moderators; Intimacy; Self reference effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; RECALL;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0036369843     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027//1618-3169.49.1.73     Document Type: Article

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