Individual differences in false memory from misinformation: Personality characteristics and their interactions with cognitive abilities

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 889-894

  Zhu, Bi ^a,b   Chen, Chuansheng ^b   Loftus, Elizabeth F ^b   Lin, Chongde ^a   He, Qinghua ^a   Chen, Chunhui ^a   Li, He ^a   Moyzis, Robert K ^c   Lessard, Jared ^b   Dong, Qi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

False memory; Personality characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950341530     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.02.016     Document Type: Article

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