'So that we might have roses in December': The functions of autobiographical memory

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1179-1192

  Kihlstrom, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONSCIOUSNESS; ETHICS; HUMAN; LEARNING; NOTE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 70449417988     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1618     Document Type: Note

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