Telling a good story: Fantasy proneness and the quality of fabricated memories

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1371-1382

  Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CBCA; Dissociation; Fabricated memories; Fantasy proneness; Malingering

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944258412     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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