False memories of fabricated political events

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 280-286

  Frenda, Steven J ^a   Knowles, Eric D ^b   Saletan, William ^c   Loftus, Elizabeth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Slate Group   (United States)

Author keywords

False memory; Political preference; Source monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871428476     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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