1st Edition

Emotional Memory Failures A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion

Edited By Ineke Wessel, Daniel B. Wright Copyright 2004
148 Pages
by Psychology Press

148 Pages
by Psychology Press

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... Read more
I. Wessel, D. B. Wright, Emotional Memory Failures: On Forgetting and Reconstructing Emotional Experiences. A.J. Barnier, L. Hung, M. Conway, Retrieval-induced Forgetting of Emotional and Unemotional Autobiographical Memories. R.J. McNally, S.A. Clancy, H.M. Barrett, H.A. Parker, Inhibiting Retrieval of Trauma Cues in Adults Reporting Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse. L.B. Myers, N. Derakshan, To Forget or Not to Forget: What Do Repressors Forget and When Do They Forget? A.J. Barnier, K. Levin, A. Maher, Suppressing Thoughts of Past Events: Are Repressive Copers Good Suppressors? M.S. Shane, J.B. Peterson, Self-induced Distortions and the Allocation of Processing Resources at Encoding and Retrieval. L.J. Levine, S. Bluck, Painting with Broad Strokes: Happiness and the Malleability of Event Memory. V. Nourkova, D.M. Bernstein, E.F. Loftus, Altering Traumatic Memory.

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Ineke Wessel, Daniel B. Wright