Can bad weather improve your memory? An unobtrusive field study of natural mood effects on real-life memory

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 254-257

  Forgas, Joseph P ^a   Goldenberg, Liz ^a   Unkelbach, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affect and cognition; Eyewitness memory; Memory; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549123356     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.014     Document Type: Article

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