Reputation of intellectual inferiority undermines memory efficiency among college students

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 104-115

  Dutrevis, Marion ^a   Croizet, Jean Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

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