Convergent, but not divergent, thinking predicts susceptibility to associative memory illusions

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-76

  Dewhurst, Stephen A ^a   Thorley, Craig ^b   Hammond, Emily R ^b   Ormerod, Thomas C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; False memory; Individual differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954603521     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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