Is knowing believing? The role of event plausibility and background knowledge in planting false beliefs about the personal past

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1628-1635

  Pezdek, Kathy ^a   Blandon Gitlin, Iris ^b   Lam, Shirley ^a   Hart, Rhiannon Ellis ^c   Schooler, Jonathan W ^d  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CHILDHOOD; CONSTIPATION; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE;

EID: 34247263150     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195925     Document Type: Article

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