Autobiographical memories of anxiety-related experiences.

Wenzel, Amy

Pinna, Keri

Rubin, David C

England

2015-05-20T02:21:22Z

2004-03

Ninety-nine undergraduate students retrieved three memories associated with each of the five emotional experiences: panic, trauma, worry, social anxiety, and feeling content. Subsequently, they answered 24 questions assessing properties of each memory, including the vividness and perceived accuracy of the memories and sensory, emotional, and anxiety-related experiences during retrieval. Memories were coded for affective tone and specificity. Results indicated that panic-related and trauma-related memories were rated similarly as content memories, but that they generally were associated with more imagery and emotional experiencing than worry-related or social anxiety-related memories. Participants experienced panic and worry symptoms to the greatest degree when they retrieved panic-related and trauma-related memories. All anxiety-related memories were characterized by more negative tone than content memories. Panic-related and trauma-related memories were more specific than worry-related, social anxiety-related, and content memories. These findings can explain partially why individuals with some, but not all, anxiety disorders experience enhanced memory for threatening material.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14975773

S0005796703001426

0005-7967

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10109

eng

Elsevier BV

Behav Res Ther

10.1016/S0005-7967(03)00142-6

Adult

Affect

Anxiety Disorders

Eidetic Imagery

Emotions

Female

Humans

Male

Memory

Mental Recall

Perception

Autobiographical memories of anxiety-related experiences.

Journal article

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14975773

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341

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Duke

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

Psychology and Neuroscience

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

University Institutes and Centers

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