Trying to recollect past events: Confidence, beliefs, and memories

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 917-934

  Smeets, Tom ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a   Horselenberg, Robert ^a   Jelicic, Marko ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confidence; False beliefs; False memories; Imagination

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; IMAGINATION; LABORATORY; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; REVIEW;

EID: 25144489123     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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