The power of negative and positive episodic memories

SE Williams, JH Ford, EA Kensinger - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2022 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Physiological feelings

EF Pace-Schott, MC Amole, T Aue, M Balconi… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Celebrating fifty years of research and applications in reminiscence and life review: State of the art and new directions

GJ Westerhof, ET Bohlmeijer - Journal of Aging studies, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

The fading affect bias: But what the hell is it for?

WR Walker, JJ Skowronski - … : The Official Journal of the Society …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Why forget? On the adaptive value of memory loss

S Nørby - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Self-enhancement and self-protection motives

C Sedikides, MD Alicke - The Oxford handbook of human …, 2012 - books.google.com
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 …

The fading affect bias: Its history, its implications, and its future

JJ Skowronski, WR Walker, DX Henderson… - … in experimental social …, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Why people rehearse their memories: Frequency of use and relations to the intensity of emotions associated with autobiographical memories

WR Walker, JJ Skowronski, JA Gibbons, RJ Vogl… - Memory, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Pollyanna principle

MW Matlin - Cognitive illusions, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
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 …

A “rosy view” of the past: Positive memory biases

O Adler, A Pansky - Cognitive biases in health and psychiatric disorders, 2020 - Elsevier
The positivity bias in memory is a prevalent phenomenon. People tend to remember more
pleasant than unpleasant events, to remember events more favorably than they actually …