Gaining insight into long-term effects of inviting speculation: Does recantation help?

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 969-990

  Compo, Nadja Schreiber ^a   Parker, Janat F ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECULATION;

EID: 78149375000     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1599     Document Type: Article

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