Changing history: Doctored photographs affect memory for past public events

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1005-1022

  Sacchi, Dario L M ^a   Agnoli, Franca ^a   Loftus, Elizabeth F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CHINA; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJURY; IRAQ; ITALY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 37349090743     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1394     Document Type: Article

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