Emotional Memory Failures - A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion
Release date:	June 2015
First published:	2004
Editors:	Ineke Wessel • Daniel B. Wright
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	148
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-88327-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-88327-1
Barcode:	9781138883277

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