"Just Stop Thinking About It": Effects of Emotional Disengagement on Children's Memory for Educational Material

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 812-823

  Rice, John A ^a   Levine, Linda J ^b   Pizarro, David A ^c  

^a United States Department of Education   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology

Author keywords

children; education; emotion regulation; memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AFFECT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; THINKING;

EID: 38149066687     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.4.812     Document Type: Article

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