Memory as a self-protective mechanism
The autobiographical memory literature has established that people remember poorly unpleasant, relative to pleasant, life events. We complemented this literature with a theoretical model - the mnemic neglect model - and an experimental paradigm that exerts tight control over the to-be-remembered mat...
Main Authors: | Sedikides, Constantine (Author), Green, Jeffrey D. (Author) |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2009-09-23.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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