Sunday, March 29, 2009

Emotion and 9/11

Talarico, J.M. & Rubin. D. (2003). Confidence, not consistency, characterize flashbulb memories. Psychological Science, 14, 445-502.

Hirst, W. & Meksin, R. (2008). A social-interactionist approach to the retention of collective memories of flashbulb events. In: O. Luminet & A. Curci (Eds.). Flashbulb Memories: New Issues and New Perspectives. Psychology Press.

Sharot, T. Martorella, E.A., Delgado, M.R., Phelps, E.A. (2007). How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11. PNAS, 104, 389-394.

Cohen, M., Mehl, M., & Pennebaker, J. (2004). Linguistic Markers of Psychological Change Surrounding September 11, 2001, Psychological Science.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Emotion and Autobiographical Memory

Schacter, D.L. (1996). Emotional memories: When the past persists. Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past. Chapter 7.

Cahill, L., Babinsky,R., Markowitsch, H., & McGaugh, J. L. (1995). The amygdala and emotional memory. Nature, 377, 295 – 296.

Levine, L., & Pizarro, D. (2004). Emotion and Memory Research: A Grumpy Overview. Social Cognition, 22, 530-554.

Brown, R., & Kulik, J. (1977). Flashbulb memories. Cognition, 5, 73-79. In: U. Neisser & I. E. Hyman (eds.) Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts. (pp. 50-65). New York: Worth Publishers.

Monday, March 9, 2009

False Confessions

Wright, L. (1993). Remembering Satan. New Yorker Magazine.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Memory Distortion

Ikier, S., Tekcan, A.I., Guelgoez, S., & Kuentay, A. (2003). Whose life is it anyway? Adoption of each other’s autobiographical memories by twins. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 237-247.

Abe, N., et al. (2008). Neural correlates of true memory, false memory, and deception. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2811-2819

Monday, March 2, 2009

A new case of dissociative fugue?

Did anyone else read this article in the Sunday Times? Fascinating story about a women who disappeared as a result of dissociative fugue for three weeks this past summer. Interesting to compare with Unknown White Male.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/nyregion/thecity/01miss.html?scp=1&sq=fugue&st=cse

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Memory Distortion

Ceci, S.J. & Bronk. M. (1993). Suggestibility of the child witness: A historical review and synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 113, 403-439.


Lindsay, D.S., Hagen, L., Read, J.D., Wade, K.A., & Garry, M. (2004). True photographs and false memory. Psychological Science, 15, 149-154.


Belli, R., & Loftus, E. (1996). The pliability of autobiographical memory: Misinformation and the false memory problem. In: D.C. Rubin (ed.) Remembering our Past: Studies in Autobiographical Memory. (pp. 157-179). New York: Cambridge University Press.