Emotional intensity predicts autobiographical memory experience

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1118-1132

  Talarico, Jennifer M ^a   Labar, Kevin S ^a   Rubin, David C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CIRCUMPLEX MODEL; COGNITION; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LITERATURE; MALE; MEMORY; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; VARIANCE; VECTOR MODEL;

EID: 4344609083     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196886     Document Type: Article

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