Life scripts help to maintain autobiographical memories of highly positive, but not highly negative, events

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-14

  Rubin, David C ^a   Berntsen, Dorthe ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEMORY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0037231004     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196077     Document Type: Article

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