So that's why I don't remember: Normalising forgetting of childhood events infuences false autobiographical beliefs but not memories

Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 801-813

  Scoboria, Alan ^a   Lynn, Steven Jay ^b   Hessen, Joanna ^a   Fisico, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRESSION; SUGGESTION;

EID: 36549020090     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701685266     Document Type: Article

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