Remembering and forecasting: The relation between autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-278

  Berntsen, Dorthe ^a   Bohn, Annette ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; THINKING;

ADULT; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; CULTURE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954669847     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.3.265     Document Type: Article

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