Reconstruction of things past: Why do some memories feel so close and others so far away?

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 217-220

  Kyung, Ellie J ^a   Menon, Geeta ^b   Trope, Yaacov ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal level; Memory; Time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449642366     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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