Cultural scripts guide recall of intensely positive life events

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 651-659

  Collins, Katherine A ^a   Pillemer, David B ^b   Ivcevic, Zorana ^b   Gooze, Rachel A ^b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL;

EID: 34547891838     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193303     Document Type: Article

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