This chapter reviews of empirical studies of learning, memory, and social judgment that are
concerned with the effects of cognitive schemata or expectancies on memory for specific …

Individuals are sometimes exposed to information that may endanger their well-being. In
such cases, forgetting or misremembering may be adaptive. Childhood abuse perpetrated …

In 5 experiments and a pilot study, a total of 1,232 undergraduates watched a series of
slides depicting a single auto–pedestrian accident. The purpose of these experiments was …

Elements of episodic memory (Tulving 1983b) consists of three parts. Part I argues for the
distinction between episodic and semantic memory as functionally separate albeit closely …

Pictures help people to comprehend and remember texts. We report two experiments
designed to test among several accounts of this facilitation. Students read texts describing …

Walter Lippmann coined the famous phrase “the pictures in our heads” in 1922 (Lippmann,
1922), yet the importance of images for social scientifi c study has remained undervalued …

This volume offers a new conceptual framework for exemplification, a coherent theoretical
approach based on contemporary psychological models of information processing, and an …

We report a picture-memory phenomenon in which subjects' recall and recognition of
photographed scenes reveal a pronounced extension of the pictures' boundaries. After …

A news report on an Appalachian tick disease was differently illustrated. It either contained
no images, an image of ticks, or this tick image plus three child victims. The victims were …

Two experiments tested and confirmed the hypothesis that events will be suggestively
planted in memory to the degree that they are plausible and script-relevant knowledge exists …