The impact of emotion on prospective memory and monitoring: No pain, big gain

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1165-1171

  May, Cynthia ^a   Owens, Max ^b   Einstein, Gilles O ^c  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Human memory; Prospective memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870176504     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0301-3     Document Type: Article

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