The effects of social pressure on false memories

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-65

  Reysen, Matthew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34247593378     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195942     Document Type: Article

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