Violent and sexual media impair second-language memory during encoding and retrieval

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2015, Pages 172-178

  Lull, Robert B ^a   Çetin, Yakup ^b   Bushman, Brad J ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Foreign language; Memory; Sexual media; Violent media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908294374     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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