Emotional Memory Failures: A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion: 3 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841699314 ISBN 13: 9781841699318

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2004

Synopsis

The beginning of the 1990's saw a partisan debate about the nature of recovered memories for highly emotional events. Some authors claimed that recovered memories of trauma always referred to veridical memories that had been inaccessible for years. Others argued that such memories were false by definition and that they were created by therapeutic attempts to uncover trauma that was believed to lie at the root of anxiety or depression. Although the debate soon moved to a middle ground, both sides fuelled the development of relevant experimental paradigms to explore the mechanisms for how false memories might be created and also how true memories might be forgotten. Examples are studies looking at memory implanting, false word memory, and retrieval-induced forgetting in the mid-1990's. Many studies using such paradigms, however, relied on emotionally neutral material. Studies relating to trauma were less readily available. Now more and more researchers are bridging this gap, testing whether emotive material can be implanted and forgotten and whether there are special populations more susceptible to these effects. This special issue brings together papers examining emotion and memory malleability, both providing a picture of the state-of-the-art research and pushing the field forward.

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Ineke Wessel, Daniel B. Wright

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841699314
• ISBN 13: 9781841699318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148
• Editor: Wessel Ineke, Wright Daniel B.