Misinformation and the “war on terror”: When memory turns fiction into fact

Terrorism and Torture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-203

  Lewandowsky, Stephan ^a   Stritzke, Werner G K ^a   Oberauer, Klaus ^b   Morales, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511581199.010     Document Type: Chapter

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