Absorption, fantasy proneness, and the false fame effect

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 501-511

  Horselenberg, Robert ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a   Wessel, Ineke ^b   Verhoeven, Charlotte ^a   Zeles, Gwenny ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absorption; False fame; Fantasy proneness; Pseudomemories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745739435     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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