Social scientists have studied collective memory for almost a century, but psychological
analyses have only recently emerged. Although no singular approach to the psychological …

The enhancing effects of emotion on memory have been well documented; emotional events
are often more frequently and more vividly remembered than their neutral counterparts …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

The forgetting curve is one of the most well known and established findings in memory
research. Knowing the pattern of memory change over time can provide insight into …

Emotions have a life beyond the immediate eliciting situation, as they tend to be shared with
others by putting the experience in narrative form. Narrating emotions helps us to express …

Importance Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common psychiatric illness,
increasingly in the public spotlight in the United States due its prevalence in the soldiers …

It is commonly held that what we see and what we believe we see are overlapping
phenomena. However, dissociations between sensory events and their subjective …

A rich body of studies in the human and non-human literature has examined the question
how novelty influences memory. For a variety of different stimuli, ranging from simple objects …

This thoroughly updated edition provides a balanced review of the core methods and the
latest research on animal learning and human memory. The relevance of basic principles is …

The psychological and sociological literature indicate that personal events are remembered
and imagined as more positive than negative, whereas public events are remembered and …