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What We Remember: Culture And Autobiographical Memory Analysis
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Why We Remember and What We Remember : Culture and Autobiographical Memory
Michael Ross and Qi Wang
Perspectives on Psychological Science 2010 5: 401
DOI: 10.1177/1745691610375555
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