Memory for Emotional Events

Memory and Emotion

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Reisberg, Daniel ^a   Heuer, Friderike ^b  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Arousal; Attention magnets; Easterbrook hypothesis; Emotion; Emotional events; Memory; Periphery; Vividness; Yerkes Dodson law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920389958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195158564.003.0001     Document Type: Chapter

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