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The frequency of voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memories across the life span.
(Mem Cognit, 2009-07)
In the present study, ratings of the memory of an important event from the previous
week on the frequency of voluntary and involuntary retrieval, belief in its accuracy,
visual imagery, auditory imagery, setting, emotional ...
Inner speech and bilingual autobiographical memory: a Polish-Danish cross-cultural study.
(Memory, 2002-01)
Thirty years after fleeing from Poland to Denmark, 20 immigrants were enlisted in
a study of bilingual autobiographical memory. Ten "early immigrators" averaged 24
years old at the time of immigration, and ten "late immigrators" ...
The distribution of early childhood memories.
(Memory, 2000-07)
The quantitative distribution of autobiographical memories for the first decade of
life is described. The distribution, based on over 11,000 autobiographical memories
from age 10 and younger from published studies, is nearly ...
People believe it is plausible to have forgotten memories of childhood sexual abuse.
(Psychon Bull Rev, 2007-08)
Pezdek, Blandon-Gitlin, and Gabbay (2006) found that perceptions of the plausibility
of events increase the likelihood that imagination may induce false memories of those
events. Using a survey conducted by Gallup, we asked ...
Life scripts help to maintain autobiographical memories of highly positive, but not highly negative, events.
(Mem Cognit, 2003-01)
A representative sample of 1,307 respondents between the ages of 20 and 94 was asked
how old they were when they felt most afraid, most proud, most jealous, most in love,
and most angry. They were also asked when they had ...
People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: subjective age across the lifespan.
(Psychon Bull Rev, 2006-10)
Subjective age--the age people think of themselves asbeing--is measured in a representative
Danish sample of 1,470 adults between 20 and 97 years of age through personal, in-home
interviews. On the average, adults younger ...
Cultural life scripts structure recall from autobiographical memory.
(Mem Cognit, 2004-04)
Three classes of evidence demonstrate the existence of life scripts, or culturally
shared representations of the timing of major transitional life events. First, a reanalysis
of earlier studies on age norms shows an increase ...
The relationship between mental vitality and cardiovascular health.
(Psychol Health, 2009-10)
Past measurement of vitality has included both emotional and physical components.
Since aspects of physical vitality such as fatigue can be indicative of physical illness,
the usefulness of existing measures of vitality ...
Internal languages of retrieval: the bilingual encoding of memories for the personal past.
(Mem Cognit, 2000-06)
In contrast to most research on bilingual memory that focuses on how words in either
lexicon are mapped onto memory for objects and concepts, we focus on memory for events
in the personal past. Using a word-cue technique ...
The reappearance hypothesis revisited: recurrent involuntary memories after traumatic events and in everyday life.
(Mem Cognit, 2008-03)
Recurrent involuntary memories are autobiographical memories that come to mind with
no preceding retrieval attempt and that are subjectively experienced as being repetitive.
Clinically, they are classified as a symptom of ...