Directed Forgetting of Emotional Words

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 643-652

  Minnema, Michael T ^a   Knowlton, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

directed forgetting; emotion; inhibition; memory

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; MOOD; WORD LIST RECALL;

ATTENTION; CUES; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 54849420682     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013441     Document Type: Article

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