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source monitoring and eyewitness memory  

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  • The source monitoring (SM) framework is an evolving set of ideas developed by Marcia Johnson and her collaborators regarding the cognitive processes by which individuals attribute mental events (thoughts, images, feelings) to particular origins (e.g., memory, perception, creativity, etc.). Most of the research motivated by the SM framework has had to do with how people identify the specific sources of mental events that they experience as episodic memories (e.g., how a witness differentiates between memories of a crime vs. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Source Monitoring and Eyewitness Memory]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-RG7301KM-1

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