Inducing and reducing false memories: A Swedish version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 369-383

  Johansson, Mikael ^a   Stenberg, Georg ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

False memories; Memory illusion; Recall; Recognition; Source monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SUGGESTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION; SUGGESTION;

EID: 0036884222     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00305     Document Type: Article

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