Introduction to this Special Issue Meaning in personal memories: Is more always better?

Memory

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-9

  Greenhoot, Andrea Follmer ^a   McLean, Kate C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SATISFACTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84873717452     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.756611     Document Type: Editorial

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