MemoryPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-10-25DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2415907
Kira Harris, Kathleen McDermott
{"title":"The effect of social retelling on event recall.","authors":"Kira Harris, Kathleen McDermott","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2415907","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2415907","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Retelling an event in a social setting often means talking about it less factually than we might if trying to recall it as accurately as possible. These distortions that arise from socially oriented retellings could affect the ability to later recall the same event accurately. Does retelling a story in a social situation impair memory compared to not retelling it at all? Or could retrieving the memory, even with a socially oriented mindset, still improve memory? We explored social retelling's effect on memory in a two-session study. Participants heard two stories twice and, after a distractor task, retold the stories according to one of three randomly assigned conditions: social retelling (retell the stories as if talking to friends), accuracy retelling (retell the stories as accurately as possible), or no retelling. A day later, everyone retold the stories as accurately as possible. Participants in the accuracy retelling group included more specific details in their session two retellings than did the social retelling group, which included more specific details than the no retelling group. Elaborations in session two did not differ across groups. Findings suggest retelling a story in a social situation benefits memory, though not as much as retelling a story accurately does.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"166-177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142503929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2422906
Melanie K T Takarangi, Mevagh Sanson, Ella K Moeck, Michelle Johns
{"title":"People experience similar intrusions about past and future autobiographical negative experiences.","authors":"Melanie K T Takarangi, Mevagh Sanson, Ella K Moeck, Michelle Johns","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2422906","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2422906","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We know much about people's problematic reactions-such as distressing intrusions-to negative, stressful, or traumatic <i>past</i> events. But emerging evidence suggests people react similarly to negative and potentially-traumatic <i>future</i> events. Given similar processes underlie remembering the past and imagining the future more generally, we wondered how similar involuntary memories, or intrusions, are for experienced vs. anticipated events. We focused primarily on intrusions because they are a transdiagnostic reaction to traumatic events. We asked subjects to report either a very stressful event they had experienced in the past 6 months, or one they anticipated they could experience in the next 6 months. We measured the frequency of intrusions about these reported events, and intrusions' phenomenological characteristics (such as emotional intensity), negative appraisals about their meaning, and reactions to them more generally. Overall, we found intrusions about experienced vs. anticipated autobiographical events were similarly troubling. This pattern supports the idea that anticipating the future can be aversive and elicit post-traumatic-stress-like symptoms, just as remembering the past can. Our findings have implications for theoretical models of traumatic-stress and treatment of traumatic-stress symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"193-204"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142623832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-11-19DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2427666
Chantal M Boucher, Alan Scoboria, Kendall Soucie, Antonio Pascual-Leone
{"title":"Development and validation of the Closure and Resolution Scale (CRS).","authors":"Chantal M Boucher, Alan Scoboria, Kendall Soucie, Antonio Pascual-Leone","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2427666","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2427666","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research comprises three studies centered on the development and validation of a self-report measure of psychological closure and resolution, the Closure and Resolution Scale (CRS). Study 1 used exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in two samples to probe the factor structure for closure using original (Study 1a <i>N </i>= 284) and revised (Study 1b <i>N </i>= 158) item pools. Study 2 (<i>N </i>= 159) examined model fit using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and revealed a good-fitting simple structural solution. The CRS consists of 34 items assessing six facets of event resolution: (1) finality, (2) understanding, (3) felt distance, (4) emotional relief, (5) mental release, and (6) behavioural deactivation. Study 3 (<i>N </i>= 182) examined convergent and discriminant validity for the CRS and provided evidence of construct validity. Participants resided in North America and primarily identified as White (68.7%-77.5%), male (44.3%-59.3%) or female (40.1%-55.7%), with post-secondary education (69.3%-71.7%). We offer a novel measure of psychological closure and resolution with preliminary evidence of good psychometric properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"205-222"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142676315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2420973
Nicholas Kathios, Paul Alexander Bloom, Anshita Singh, Ella Bartlett, Sameah Algharazi, Matthew Siegelman, Fan Shen, Lea Beresford, Michaelle E DiMaggio-Potter, Sarah Bennett, Nandhini Natarajan, Yongtian Ou, Psyche Loui, Mariam Aly, Nim Tottenham
{"title":"On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories.","authors":"Nicholas Kathios, Paul Alexander Bloom, Anshita Singh, Ella Bartlett, Sameah Algharazi, Matthew Siegelman, Fan Shen, Lea Beresford, Michaelle E DiMaggio-Potter, Sarah Bennett, Nandhini Natarajan, Yongtian Ou, Psyche Loui, Mariam Aly, Nim Tottenham","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2420973","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2420973","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) are typically elicited by music that listeners have heard before. While studies that have directly manipulated music familiarity show that familiar music evokes more MEAMs than music listeners have not heard before, music that is unfamiliar to the listener can also sporadically cue autobiographical memory. Here we examined whether music that sounds familiar even without previous exposure can produce spontaneous MEAMs. Cognitively healthy older adults (<i>N</i> = 75, ages 65-80 years) listened to music clips that were chosen by researchers to be either familiar or unfamiliar (i.e., varying by prior exposure). Participants then disclosed whether the clip elicited a MEAM and later provided self-reported familiarity ratings for each. Self-reported familiarity was positively associated with the occurrence of MEAMs in response to familiar, but not the unfamiliar, music. The likelihood of reporting MEAMs for music released during youth (i.e., the \"reminiscence bump\") relative to young adulthood (20-25 years) included both music released during participants' adolescence (14-18 years) and middle childhood (5-9 years) once self-reported familiarity was accounted for. These developmental effects could not be accounted for by music-evoked affect. Overall, our results suggest that the phenomenon of MEAMs hinges upon both perceptions of familiarity and prior exposure.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"178-192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142576544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2404499
Yan Xuan, Mackenna Greenberg, Sharda Umanath, Jennifer H Coane
{"title":"Flashbulb and first-hand memories for campus closings due to COVID-19: consistency and change.","authors":"Yan Xuan, Mackenna Greenberg, Sharda Umanath, Jennifer H Coane","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2404499","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2404499","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Flashbulb memories (FBM) refer to the vivid and detailed retrieval of the reception context of a highly salient event. We examined FBMs and personal memories for one college's sudden transition to remote learning due to COVID-19. We explored whether the announcement of the campus' closure resulted in FBMs, how respondents felt about the decision, and the impacts of the decision. Employing a two-wave longitudinal survey conducted in March and May 2020, participants responded to questions regarding learning about the campus' closure and a control memory (an event from the same week chosen by participants). Participant reports suggested they did form FBMs, and FBMs were more consistent over time than control memories. Confidence did not differ across memory types. Additionally, we observed an initial strong positive response to the decision to close the campus - a sentiment that intensified over time. Lastly, participants' emotional responses transitioned from negative feelings in the first wave of testing to more neutral feelings in the second. This work offers a unique exploration of FBMs within the broader context of a global health crisis that intruded into daily life, effectively merging the typically public and distant nature of flashbulb events with first-hand, personal experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"84-99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142291189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2412025
Ineke Wessel, Robyn Lehmann, Sera Wiechert
{"title":"Two replications of Wiechert et al.'s (2023) online Think/No-Think study in undergraduate students.","authors":"Ineke Wessel, Robyn Lehmann, Sera Wiechert","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2412025","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2412025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Think/No-Think (TNT) task examines the effects of attempts at suppressing particular stimuli. First, participants learn cue-target word pairs. Subsequently, they either recall (Think trials) or avoid thinking about targets whatsoever (No-Think trials) in response to cues. The critical finding is that No-Think targets are recalled less well than Baseline items (i.e., Suppression-Induced Forgetting; SIF). Wiechert et al.'s [(2023). Suppression-induced forgetting: A pre-registered replication of the think/no-think paradigm. <i>Memory (Hove, England)</i>, 31(7), 989-1002] null-findings in Prolific workers using online video calls casted doubts on the robustness of the effect. We adapted their procedure in two replication studies testing undergraduate psychology students. The first study (<i>N</i> = 54) adapted Wiechert's procedure to an in-person laboratory setting using Same Probe (SP) recall and found evidence for SIF. Hypothesizing that an online test should yield SIF in undergraduates as well, study 2 replicated both the in-person laboratory (<i>n</i> = 54) and online (<i>n</i> = 54) procedures. The results suggested evidence for SIF in the in-lab setting, yet no evidence was observed in the online setting. As exploratory Bayesian analyses showed conclusive evidence for a null effect, this pattern of results does not imply that the in-lab and online settings actually differed. Yet, overall, the results cast doubts on the generalisability of the SIF-effect .</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"134-144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142391748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2404261
Xinyu Zhang, Yuanxia Zheng, Guoxiong Liu
{"title":"Negative life events predict depressive trends: the moderating effect of overgeneral autobiographical memory and early parenting behaviour.","authors":"Xinyu Zhang, Yuanxia Zheng, Guoxiong Liu","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2404261","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2404261","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Emerging Adulthood is a complex and chaotic period and depression is one of the main psychological health problems during this period. Overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM) is prevalent among patients with clinical depression. However, the prediction of OGM in groups with non-clinical depression and its influencing mechanisms remain inconclusive. Studies have shown that OGM and early parenting behaviour are vulnerable factors of depression in emerging adulthood, which may be triggered by negative life events. Our longitudinal study included 241 participants (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 21.88 years). At baseline, participants completed measures of current negative life events, depression, early parenting behaviour and an autobiographical memory test. Thereafter, they were tracked for depression every 35 days. We used the latent class growth model to differentiate levels and trends of depression among non-clinical participants. The analysis showed that the effect of negative life events on depression was moderated by OGM and early parenting behaviour. However, this moderating effect was found only in the low-risk depression group. Our findings indicate that early parenting behaviour might account for the different mechanisms of OGM production in non-clinical groups. Moreover, it underlines the importance of OGM and early parenting behaviour as potential predictors of future depression in non-clinical groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"59-72"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142291192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2403714
Claire Hou, Sharda Umanath, Amy Corning, Magdalena Abel
{"title":"You don't understand me! But, I do! Awareness of cross-generational differences in collective remembering of national historic events.","authors":"Claire Hou, Sharda Umanath, Amy Corning, Magdalena Abel","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2403714","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2403714","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Collective memories refer to a group's shared representation of the past, which are slow to change over time. In this study, representative samples of American and German Younger Adults (YAs) and Older Adults (OAs) rated the emotional valence of 12 national historic events. Critically, both age groups were also asked to take on the perspective of the other: OAs imagined how YAs feel, whereas YAs imagined how OAs feel about the same events today. The results replicated previous findings that OAs and YAs hold differing opinions on numerous events. Both age groups successfully recognised these different collective perceptions between generations to some extent. Yet, OAs were more accurate in the perspective-taking task, with YAs consistently underestimating the intensity of OAs' emotional valence. Self-reported perspective-taking strategies suggest that OAs relied more on stereotypes and considered education, while knowledge from specific people was universally used to rate the other age group's perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"45-58"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142291193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2402920
Mahdi Bagheri, Marcella L Woud, Jolina Simon, Lilah Abdalla, Mats Dombrowe, Cem Woinek, Jürgen Margraf, Simon E Blackwell
{"title":"Inducing positive involuntary mental imagery in daily life using personalized photograph stimuli.","authors":"Mahdi Bagheri, Marcella L Woud, Jolina Simon, Lilah Abdalla, Mats Dombrowe, Cem Woinek, Jürgen Margraf, Simon E Blackwell","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2402920","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2402920","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most people experience positive involuntary mental imagery (IMI) frequently in daily life; however, evidence for the importance and effects of positive IMI is largely indirect. The current study adapted a paradigm to experimentally induce positive IMI in participants' daily lives. This could in turn provide a means to directly test positive IMI's effects. In a within-subjects design, participants (<i>N </i>= 41) generated positive mental images (imagery condition) and sentences (verbal condition) from photo cues, half of which participants provided from their own living environment. Participants then recorded involuntary memories of the previously generated images or sentences in a seven-day diary, before returning to the lab and completing some measures including an involuntary memory task. In the diary, participants reported more involuntary memories from the imagery condition than from the verbal condition, and more involuntary memories from their own photos compared to the other photos. A more mixed pattern of findings was found across other tasks in the lab. The study indicates that the paradigm can be used as a means to induce positive IMI and that using photos as the basis for generating positive imagery increases the amount of IMI in daily life. Theoretical and potential clinical implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"31-44"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142291191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MemoryPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2406307
Bryan Hong, My An Tran, Heidi Cheng, Bianca Arenas Rodriguez, Kristen E Li, Morgan D Barense
{"title":"The influence of event similarity on the detailed recall of autobiographical memories.","authors":"Bryan Hong, My An Tran, Heidi Cheng, Bianca Arenas Rodriguez, Kristen E Li, Morgan D Barense","doi":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2406307","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09658211.2024.2406307","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memories for life events are thought to be organised based on their relationships with one another, affecting the order in which events are recalled such that similar events tend to be recalled together. However, less is known about how detailed recall for a given event is affected by its associations to other events. Here, we used a cued autobiographical memory recall task where participants verbally recalled events corresponding to personal photographs. Importantly, we characterised the temporal, spatial, and semantic associations between each event to assess how similarity between adjacently cued events affected detailed recall. We found that participants provided more non-episodic details for cued events when the preceding event was both semantically similar and either temporally or spatially dissimilar. However, similarity along time, space, or semantics between adjacent events did not affect the episodic details recalled. We interpret this by considering organisation at the level of a life narrative, rather than individual events. When recalling a stream of personal events, we may feel obligated to justify seeming discrepancies between adjacent events that are semantically similar, yet simultaneously temporally or spatially dissimilar - to do so, we provide additional supplementary detail to help maintain global coherence across the events in our lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":18569,"journal":{"name":"Memory","volume":" ","pages":"100-112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142349873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}