Making up history: False memories of fake news stories

Europe's Journal of Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 245-250

  Polage, Danielle C ^a  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False memory; Familiarity; Illusory truth; Source

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865365296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18410413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v8i2.456     Document Type: Article

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