Idea habitats: How the prevalence of environmental cues influences the success of ideas

Cognitive Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 195-221

  Berger, Jonah A ^a   Heath, Chip ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Memory; Retrieval; Social representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 17244382961     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_10     Document Type: Article

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