Thinking about memories for everyday and shocking events: Do people use ease-of-retrieval cues in memory judgments?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 763-775

  Echterhoff, Gerald ^a,c   Hirst, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS MODEL; RECALL;

EID: 33749674392     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193424     Document Type: Article

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