Gender and age differences in the recall of affective autobiographical memories using the autobiographical memory test

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 950-954

  Ros, Laura ^a   Latorre, José Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Autobiographical memory; Emotional memories; Gender differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956879887     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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