Susceptibility to long-term misinformation effect outside of the laboratory

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL., 2013, Pages

  Lommen, Miriam J J ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^a   van den Hout, Marcel A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Memory; Misinformation effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956592437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v4i0.19864     Document Type: Article

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