Learning errors from fiction: Difficulties in reducing reliance on fictional stories

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1140-1149

  Marsh, Elizabeth J ^a   Fazio, Lisa K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FICTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LEARNING; LITERATURE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RELIABILITY; SUGGESTIBILITY; SUGGESTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750800999     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193260     Document Type: Article

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