Chapter title |
True and False Recovered Memories
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Chapter number | 3 |
Book title |
True and False Recovered Memories
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Published in |
Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, October 2011
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4614-1195-6_3 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4614-1194-9, 978-1-4614-1195-6
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Authors |
Anderson, Michael C, Huddleston, Ean, Anderson, Michael C., Michael C. Anderson, Ean Huddleston |
Abstract |
Historically, research on forgetting has been dominated by the assumption that forgetting is passive, reflecting decay, interference, and changes in context. This emphasis arises from the pervasive assumption that forgetting is a negative outcome. Here, we present a functional view of forgetting in which the fate of experience in memory is determined as much by motivational forces that dictate the focus of attention as it is by passive factors. A central tool of motivated forgetting is retrieval suppression, a process whereby people shut down episodic retrieval to control awareness. We review behavioral, neurobiological, and clinical research and show that retrieval suppression leads us to forget suppressed experiences. We discuss key questions necessary to address to develop this model, relationships to other forgetting phenomena, and the implications of this research for understanding recovered memories. This work provides a foundation for understanding how motivational forces influence what we remember of life experience. |
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Italy | 1 | <1% |
Australia | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Mexico | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 185 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 16% |
Student > Master | 31 | 16% |
Student > Bachelor | 28 | 15% |
Researcher | 18 | 9% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 7% |
Other | 27 | 14% |
Unknown | 42 | 22% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Psychology | 88 | 46% |
Neuroscience | 17 | 9% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 5% |
Social Sciences | 5 | 3% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 2% |
Other | 17 | 9% |
Unknown | 49 | 26% |