False rumors and true belief: Memory processes underlying children's errant reports of rumored events

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 407-422

  Principe, Gabrielle F ^a   Haines, Brooke ^a   Adkins, Amber ^a   Guiliano, Stephanie ^a  

^a URSINUS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Eyewitness testimony; Memory; Rumor; Source monitoring; Suggestibility

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY; PEER GROUP; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUGGESTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUGGESTION;

EID: 77955554531     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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