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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 ...
A memory-based model of posttraumatic stress disorder: evaluating basic assumptions underlying the PTSD diagnosis.
(Psychol Rev, 2008-10)
In the mnemonic model of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the current memory
of a negative event, not the event itself, determines symptoms. The model is an alternative
to the current event-based etiology of PTSD represented ...
Flashbulb memories and posttraumatic stress reactions across the life span: age-related effects of the German occupation of Denmark during World War II.
(Psychol Aging, 2006-03)
A representative sample of older Danes were interviewed about experiences from the
German occupation of Denmark in World War II. The number of participants with flashbulb
memories for the German invasion (1940) and capitulation ...
Splintered memories or vivid landmarks? Qualities and organization of traumatic memories with and without PTSD
(Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2003-09-01)
One hundred and eighty-one students answered a standardized questionnaire on Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD): 25 reported trauma(s) and indicated a pattern of after-effects
that matched a PTSD symptom profile, whereas ...
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 ...
The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
(Behav Res Ther, 2006-02)
We introduce a new scale that measures how central an event is to a person's identity
and life story. For the most stressful or traumatic event in a person's life, the
full 20-item Centrality of Event Scale (CES) and the ...
Positive emotions enhance recall of peripheral details
(Cognition and Emotion, 2009-03-02)
Emotional arousal and negative affect enhance recall of central aspects of an event.
However, the role of discrete emotions in selective memory processing is understudied.
Undergraduates were asked to recall and ...
Postscript: Evidence and Counterevidence
(PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW, 2008-10)
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 ...