Suicide is an important problem among older adults and in particular older men. Risk factors
for suicide in older adults include the loss of a loved one, loneliness and physical illness …

The power of episodic memories is that they bring a past moment into the present, providing
opportunities for us to recall details of the experiences, reframe or update the memory, and …

Flashbulb memories (FBMs) refer to vivid and long-lasting autobiographical memories for
the circumstances in which people learned of a shocking and consequential public event. A …

Objectives Major sociopolitical events can influence the general public's affective state and
other affect-related processes, such as sleep. Here, we investigated the extent that the 2020 …

Older adults exhibit an age-related positivity effect, with more positivity for memories than
young adults. Theoretical explanations attribute this phenomenon to greater emphasis on …

Autobiographical memories frequently occur during everyday life. One of the most common
approaches to measuring memories in everyday life is a diary method: Participants record …

Objectives Given that types of reminiscing consistently predict psychological well-being, the
current study investigated how older adults' reminiscing related to their appraisal of the …

Humans tend to distort past events, leading to a gap between experience and retrospective
experience—the retrospective bias. This study clarified the characteristics of retrospective …

In addition to showing greater memory positivity soon after negative events, older adults can
be more likely than younger adults to show decreases in memory negativity as events grow …

We rely on our memories to tell us about our past, but it has long been established that our
memory representations are not fully reliable (see Brainerd & Reyna, 2005; Loftus, 2005; …