Political involvement and memory failure as interdependent determinants of vote overreporting

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-257

  Stocké, Volker ^a   Stark, Tobias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEMORY DISORDER; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947276767     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1339     Document Type: Article

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