Taboo words: The effect of emotion on memory for peripheral information

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 866-879

  Guillet, Rebecca ^a   Arndt, Jason ^a  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TABOO; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 70349422412     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.6.866     Document Type: Article

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