Shared-reality effects on memory: Communicating to fulfill epistemic needs

Social Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 353-378

  Kopietz, René ^a   Hellmann, Jens H ^b   Higgins, E Tory ^c   Echterhoff, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

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EID: 77953849173     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2010.28.3.353     Document Type: Article

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