To forget or not to forget: What do repressors forget and when do they forget?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 495-511

  Myers, Lynn B ^a   Derakshan, Nazanin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 3042600573     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930341000419     Document Type: Article

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