Terrorists brought down the plane!-No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 283-310

  Ecker, Ullrich K H ^a   Lewandowsky, Stephan ^a   Apai, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continued influence of misinformation; Emotionality; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISASTER; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ADULT; COGNITION; DISASTERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251610346     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2010.497927     Document Type: Article

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