Perceived Change in the Affect Associated With Dreams: The Fading Affect Bias and Its Moderators

Dreaming

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-43

  Ritchie, Timothy D ^a   Skowronski, John J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affect intensity; autobiographical events; dreams; fading affect bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049117368     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1053-0797.18.1.27     Document Type: Article

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