False memory production: effects of self-consistent false information and motivated cognition

Remembrance of one's personal past and the development of false memories have recently received intense public scrutiny. Based upon self-schema (Markus, 1977) and self-verification (Swann, 1987) theories, two studies were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that a self-schema guides cogniti...

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Main Author: Brown, Martha
Other Authors: Psychology
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38035
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-151732/