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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"autobiographical memories"”.
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Tall Tales: Editing Autobiographical Memories
<p>The impact of exaggerating when sharing an autobiographical memory with another person was investigated. Literature indicates that sharing an autobiographical memory serves a social function. However no research has investigated the impact that exaggerating when sharing specific memories has on …
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Exploring the sharing of autobiographical memories and memory objects in Chinese families
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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The persuasive impact of autobiographical memories ads: schema-triggered affect or episodic self-referencing?
Marketers frequently use autobiographical memories ads to induce persuasion. However, the few existing studies of autobiographical memories ads have produced inconsistent results regarding their persuasive impact. Moreover, there is little empirical support for the presumed process by which …
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High School Hazing: A Study of the Autobiographical Memories of Entering First Year College Students
… is to determine if relationships exist between autobiographical memories of entering first year college students of their high school hazing experiences and demographic variables. Hazing is defined as any humiliating or dangerous activity expected of students when joining a high school group, …
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Forgetfulness of Things Past: The Impact of Suppression and Metacognitive Beliefs on the Intrusion of Autobiographical and Non-Autobiographical Memories
… Importantly, repetitive negative thoughts and memories play a major role in psychopathology and represent a fundamental transdiagnostic process which deserves experimental and clinical attention. Inhibitory deficits on the one hand and metacognitive beliefs on the other are thought to play a …
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Mood and memory : explantaions and exploration
… mood-dependent memory, mood-congruent memory and autobiographical memory perception. Fifty-eight participants generated six autobiographical memories after receiving a positive mood induction and rated them in a number of ways. They also saw four inkblots. After receiving the same or a contrasting …
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Psychological and Neural Processing of Social Rejection and Inclusion in Major Depressive Disorder
… validity of this paradigm using social autobiographical memories. Chapter 4 investigated the neural and behavioural responses to self-relevant autobiographical memories of social rejection and social inclusion in individuals with depression and in healthy controls. The next two chapters …
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EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF TIME AND REPETITION ON RECENT AND REMOTE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY RETRIEVAL USING fMRI
… the consolidation of long-term episodic memories. The experiments presented here have explored the influence of repetition on recent and remote autobiographical memories both behaviorally with regard to qualitative and quantitative measures of content, and neuroanatomically, focusing on …
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Involuntary retrieval from autobiographical memory and the nature of cues
… the possibility of eliciting involuntary autobiographical memories (ABMs) in the laboratory, as a preliminary step in studying the retrieval process of involuntary ABMs. The main aim of the thesis is to test whether involuntary AMBs (IAMs) can be successfully elicited in the lab, to assess …
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The reminiscence bump in autobiographical memory: An investigation of the life script hypothesis
… that older adults report a higher percentage of autobiographical memories for experiences that occurred between ages 15 and 30 compared to any other period of life. This reminiscence bump is evident for memories involving positive emotions but not for memories involving negative emotions. The …
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Content and organizational differences between autobiographical and semantic memories
… investigated differences between semantic and autobiographical memories of the same item. In a review of the problem area [Part 1] it was shown that the semantic/episodic distinction, SED, [Tulving 1972, 1983] had not been unequivocally supported by research and was open to a number of …
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The Life Stories of Teachers in Post Compulsory Education: A Narrative Exploration of Teacher Identity
… the exploration of the meanings constructed from autobiographical memories; in addition, the study explores how narrative meanings are mediated within the organisational and political context of being a teacher. The study adopts a psychosocial perspective (McAdams 2006) to life stories and the …
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Do open-minded individuals disclose more about their criminal history?
… the personality trait of Openness, individuals' autobiographical memory, and their initial criminal history disclosure. The overall goal was to test the hypotheses that more Open-minded individuals disclose more about their criminal history, and that they do so due to richer and more elaborate …
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The Association Between Autobiographical Memory Specificity And Memory Sharing In College Students
<p>The way in which memories are stored and communicated makes the construction of autobiographical memories (AM) both an internal process and a social occurrence. Strong associations between reduced AM specificity and psychological adjustment have been found; however, the role significant others …
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Empirical support for the adaptive and maladaptive functions of autobiographical memory
Autobiographical memories are hypothesised to serve at least three functions: they direct people’s behaviour, inform their identity, and facilitate social bonding. But most of the research on these three functions has focused on how memories serve them in ways that are adaptive—in fact, we know …
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The Effect of Changing Appraisals of Current Life Success on Memories of Love Towards Parents
… successes and failures in life, do we bias our memories of childhood? Cognitive appraisal theory would predict that emotions are elicited based on the current appraisal of an event or person. There is some research that these current appraisals can also distort memories of emotions surrounding …
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The influence of mood on self-defining memories
… empirical literature relating to self-defining memories is reviewed. The term 'selfdefining memories' which was first coined by Singer and Moffitt (1991-1992), refers to a subcategory of autobiographical memories that are of important events in our personal histories that we believe define who …
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Museums for all: towards engaging, memorable museum experiences through inclusive audio description
… the nature of the museum experience by analysing autobiographical memories for museum visits, demonstrating the importance of thoughts, feelings and personal context in museum memories and demonstrating an autobiographical memory coding model. Study 3 investigates the impact of AD on the …
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Museums for all: towards engaging, memorable museum experiences through inclusive audio description
… the nature of the museum experience by analysing autobiographical memories for museum visits, demonstrating the importance of thoughts, feelings and personal context in museum memories and demonstrating an autobiographical memory coding model. Study 3 investigates the impact of AD on the …
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