Forgetting in context: The effects of age, emotion, and social factors on retrieval-induced forgetting

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 874-888

  Barber, Sarah J ^a   Mather, Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Interference inhibition; Memory retrieval; Retrieval induced forgetting; Socially shared retrieval induced forgetting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867135999     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0202-8     Document Type: Article

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