Coming to Grips With the Past: Effect of Repeated Simulation on the Perceived Plausibility of Episodic Counterfactual Thoughts

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1329-1334

  de Brigard, Felipe ^a   Szpunar, Karl K ^a   Schacter, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autobiographical memory; episodic memory; memory; thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869846373     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612468163     Document Type: Article

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