The power of episodic memories is that they bring a past moment into the present, providing
opportunities for us to recall details of the experiences, reframe or update the memory, and …

The role of peripheral physiology in the experience of emotion has been debated since the
19th century following the seminal proposal by William James that somatic responses to …

Fifty years ago, psychiatrist Robert Butler (1963) published an influential article on the
recollection and evaluation of personal memories in later life. We discuss the major insights …

This article reviews research examining the fading affect bias (FAB): The finding that the
intensity of affect associated with negative autobiographical memories fades faster than …

Is forgetting mostly a positive force in human life? On the surface, this seems to not be the
case, and people often associate memory loss with frustration in their everyday lives. Yet …

People desire to maximize the positivity, and minimize the negativity, of their self-views. The
tendency to exalt one's virtues and soften one's weaknesses, relative to objective criteria …

People may choose to rehearse their autobiographical memories in silence or to disclose
their memories with other people. This paper focuses on five types of memory rehearsal …

Recalling a memory often prompts an emotional response. Research examining the fading
affect bias (FAB) indicates that the emotional response prompted by positive memories often …

Folk wisdom tells us that “familiarity breeds contempt”, but studies suggest otherwise.
Beginning with the work of Titchener (1910), psychologists have been intrigued by the …

Mental time travel (MTT) is the ability to mentally project oneself into one's personal past or
future, in terms of memories of past events or projections of possible future events. We …