Confidence and accuracy in the recall of deceptive and nondeceptive sentences

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 618-627

  Brewer, William F ^a   Sampaio, Cristina ^a   Barlow, M Rose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence and accuracy; Deceptive memory stimuli; Memory attribution; Memory confidence; Metamemory; Schema inference items; Synonym substitution items

Indexed keywords

EID: 16344390025     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.01.017     Document Type: Article

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