How Communication Goals Determine When Audience Tuning Biases Memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-21

  Echterhoff, Gerald ^a   Higgins, E Tory ^b   Kopietz, René ^a   Groll, Stephan ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

audience tuning bias; communication goals; epistemic trust; memory; socially shared reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 39449090090     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.1.3     Document Type: Article

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