The cognitive consequences of forced fabrication: Evidence from studies of eyewitness suggestibility

Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology and Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chrobak, Quin M ^a   Zaragoza, Maria S ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical confabulation; Confabulation; False memories; False memory development; Forced fabrication effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208913.003.03     Document Type: Chapter

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