What Causes the Isolation Effect?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1359-1366

  Hunt, R Reed ^a   Lamb, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY;

EID: 85047685666     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.6.1359     Document Type: Article

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