Functions of remembering and misremembering emotion

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1059-1075

  Levine, Linda J ^a   Lench, Heather C ^b   Safer, Martin A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FALSE MEMORY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 70449440201     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1610     Document Type: Review

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