Intentional Forgetting Can Increase, Not Decrease, Residual Influences of to-Be-Forgotten Information

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 524-531

  Bjork, Elizabeth Ligon ^a   Bjork, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CUES; HUMANS; INTENTION; MEMORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0141641030     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.4.524     Document Type: Article

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