Familiarity breeds distortion: The effects of media exposure on false reports concerning media coverage of the terrorist attacks in London on 7 July 2005

Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-85

  Ost, James ^a   Granhag, Pär Anders ^b   Udell, Julie ^a   af Hjelmsäter, Emma Roos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FALSE MEMORY; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; SWEDEN; TELEVISION; TERRORISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LONDON; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SUGGESTION; SWEDEN; TERRORISM;

EID: 37749051498     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701723323     Document Type: Article

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