Emotion Enhances the Subjective Feeling of Remembering, Despite Lower Accuracy for Contextual Details

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 553-562

  Rimmele, Ulrike ^a   Davachi, Lila ^a   Petrov, Radoslav ^a   Dougal, Sonya ^a   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence; Emotion; Memory; Remember know; Subjective sense of remembering

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS;

AFFECT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959291344     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024246     Document Type: Article

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