Age-related positivity effects and autobiographical memory detail: Evidence from a past/future source memory task

This study investigated whether the age-related positivity effect strengthens specific event details in autobiographical memory. Participants retrieved past events or imagined future events in response to neutral or emotional cue words. Older adults rated each kind of event more positively than youn...

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Published in:Memory (Hove) 2011-08, Vol.19 (6), p.641-652
Main Authors: Gallo, David A., Korthauer, Laura E., McDonough, Ian M., Teshale, Salom, Johnson, Elizabeth L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult. Elderly
Aged
Ageing
Aging - psychology
Autobiographical memory
Biological and medical sciences
Cues
Developmental psychology
Emotions
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Future events
Human
Humans
Learning. Memory
Male
Memory
Memory, Episodic
Mental Recall - physiology
Positivity effects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Time
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