Self-memory biases in explicit and incidental encoding of trait adjectives

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1040-1045

  Turk, David J ^a   Cunningham, Sheila J ^a   Macrae, C Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Memory; Self; Self reference effect; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COGNITION; EVALUATION; EXPLICIT ENCODING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENTAL ENCODING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; SELF MEMORY EFFECT; SELF REFERENCE EFFECT; SOCIAL COGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 47149096748     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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