Source Credibility and Idea Improvement Have Independent Effects on Unconscious Plagiarism Errors in Recall and Generate-New Tasks

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 267-274

  Perfect, Timothy J ^a   Field, Ian ^a   Jones, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

idea improvement; recall own; recall partner; source credibility; unconscious plagiarism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; CREATIVITY; EGO; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLISHING; RECALL;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CREATIVENESS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PLAGIARISM; REALITY TESTING; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 58449112141     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013936     Document Type: Article

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