DIFFERENTIAL CHANGES IN AFFECTIVE INTENSITY AND FORGETTING OF UNPLEASANT PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
DIFFERENTIAL CHANGES IN AFFECTIVE INTENSITY AND FORGETTING OF UNPLEASANT PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
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DOI:
10.1037/h0029394
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发表时间:
1970-01-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
HOLMES, DS
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作者:
HOLMES, DS
Attempted to identify the process underlying the selective recall of personal experiences. Other investigators have reported both that unpleasant experiences were less likely to be recalled than pleasant experiences and that affectively moderate experiences were less likely to be recalled than intense experiences independent of their type of affect. The previous work was based on the affect originally associated with the experiences and did not take into consideration changes in affect between the occurrence and the recall of the experiences. Using 26 undergraduates, it was found that:(a) experiences which decreased in affective intensity between the time they occurred and the time at which they were to be recalled were less likely to be recalled than those which did not decrease in intensity, and (b) unpleasant experiences decreased more in intensity than pleasant experiences. Results provide a nondynamic explanation for selective recall.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)