Compelling untruths: Content borrowing and vivid false memories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 954-963

  Lampinen, James Michael ^a,b   Meier, Christopher R ^a   Arnal, Jack D ^a   Leding, Juliana K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Content borrowing; DRM; False memories; Phantom recollection; Recollection rejection

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE MECHANISM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; RECALL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; REPRESSION; SEMANTICS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 27944476320     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.31.5.954     Document Type: Review

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