Positive involuntary autobiographical memories: you first have to live them.
Involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) are typically discussed in the context of negative memories such as trauma 'flashbacks'. However, IAMs occur frequently in everyday life and are predominantly positive. In spite of this, surprisingly little is known about how such positive IAMs...
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| description | Involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) are typically discussed in the context of negative memories such as trauma 'flashbacks'. However, IAMs occur frequently in everyday life and are predominantly positive. In spite of this, surprisingly little is known about how such positive IAMs arise. The trauma film paradigm is often used to generate negative IAMs. Recently an equivalent positive film was developed inducing positive IAMs (Davies, Malik, Pictet, Blackwell, and Holmes, 2012). The current study is the first to investigate which variables (emotional reaction to the film; recognition memory of the film; participant characteristics) would best predict the frequency of positive IAMs. Higher levels of positive mood change to the film were significantly associated with the number of positive IAMs recorded in the subsequent week. Results demonstrate the importance of positive emotional reaction at the time of an event for subsequent positive IAMs. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f93605fa-5d4b-4293-947e-4e88a1eeae762022-03-27T12:56:18ZPositive involuntary autobiographical memories: you first have to live them.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f93605fa-5d4b-4293-947e-4e88a1eeae76EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Clark, IMackay, CHolmes, EInvoluntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) are typically discussed in the context of negative memories such as trauma 'flashbacks'. However, IAMs occur frequently in everyday life and are predominantly positive. In spite of this, surprisingly little is known about how such positive IAMs arise. The trauma film paradigm is often used to generate negative IAMs. Recently an equivalent positive film was developed inducing positive IAMs (Davies, Malik, Pictet, Blackwell, and Holmes, 2012). The current study is the first to investigate which variables (emotional reaction to the film; recognition memory of the film; participant characteristics) would best predict the frequency of positive IAMs. Higher levels of positive mood change to the film were significantly associated with the number of positive IAMs recorded in the subsequent week. Results demonstrate the importance of positive emotional reaction at the time of an event for subsequent positive IAMs. |
| spellingShingle | Clark, I Mackay, C Holmes, E Positive involuntary autobiographical memories: you first have to live them. |
| title | Positive involuntary autobiographical memories: you first have to live them. |
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| title_short | Positive involuntary autobiographical memories: you first have to live them. |
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