Comparing Recollective Experience in True and False Autobiographical Memories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 920-930

  Heaps, Christopher M ^a   Nash, Michael ^b  

^a LINFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; LITERATURE; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL;

ADULT; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 85047686437     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.4.920     Document Type: Article

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