Emotional memories are (usually) harder to forget: A meta-analysis of the item-method directed forgetting literature
- 12 April 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Vol. 28 (4) , 1313-1326
Abstract
The current meta-analysis explored whether emotional memories are less susceptible to item-method directed forgetting than neutral memories. Basic analysesKeywords
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