Remembering and Misremembering Emotions

Judgments Over Time: The Interplay of Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Levine, Linda J ^a   Safer, Martin A ^b   Lench, Heather C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviors; Bias; Cognitions; Emotions; Feelings; Forgetting; Memory; Remembering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921600750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177664.003.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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