Can Gender Stereotypes Facilitate Memory When Elaborative Strategies are Used?

Educational Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-180

  Wood, Eileen ^a   Groves, Alison ^a   Bruce, Shirliana ^a   Willoughby, Teena ^b   Desmarais, Serge ^c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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EID: 0344197748     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410303228     Document Type: Article

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