Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1169-1180

  Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^a   Corkin, Suzanne ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 1442350475     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195800     Document Type: Article

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